Spring 1998

On newsstands March 15 to June 14, 1998
Volume 15, Number 1
Features
The Showman
Twenty years ago, Pierre Théberge fumbled through a job interview at the National Gallery. Now he returns as the new director
by Robert Everett-Green
A Rake's Business
Meet Patrick Painter, the energy behind Painter Editions in Vancouver and a new international blue-chip gallery in Los Angeles
by Sarah Milroy
Beauty of Another Order
An interview with Ann Thomas, who has curated a ground-breaking exhibition of science-based photography
by Steven Manford
The Best Looking Man
Kenneth Clark thought so, and in the nineteen-fifties there were others who believed Alan Jarvis was just the man to come back from London, England, to the head the National Gallery in Ottawa
by Douglas Ord
At the Gates
A running fence of steel and barbwire cuts a swath between the U.S. and Mexico and the cities of San Diego and Tijuana. Insite97, and its Canadian contingent, takes the border as its subject
by Dot Tuer