A China Portal The Canadian artist Ken Lum remembers an inspiring encounter in Paris with the late Chinese artist Chen Zhen. Nasgaard's Canadian Abstraction Roald Nasgaard's book Abstract Painting in Canada celebrates the history of non-representational art in our country. But what about its future? by Robert Linsley A Trapper in the Woods The Vancouver artist Damian Moppett achieves a fine balance between invention and homage by Nancy Tousley Archaeologies of the Present A curator's view of the scramble for influence among biennials, museums and art fairs in today's art world by Jens Hoffmann Beauty through the Back Door Fifteen years of frottage painting by Gerald Ferguson by Gary Michael Dault

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