Volume 22, Number 2

Features

The Waters of Venice The Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore comes to the 51st Venice Biennale with a bracing, provocative new work by Lee-Ann Martin The Eternal Footman From fibreglass faeries to tiny towns, Roland Brener opens doors with his dark and delightful sculptures by Gary Michael Dault Imagining the Artist: Going to Eleven Zoom back to Plato and into the future in a recap of the cultural construction of the artist through history by Mark Kingwell A Different da Vinci An exclusive look inside the National Gallery of Canada's summer blockbuster Renaissance exhibition with its curator, David Franklin Nervous Systems David Rokeby is a star of international new-media art. Why is he not more widely known? by Andrea Carson

Remembering

Agnes Martin The incomparable, inscrutable beauty and mystery of the recently late Canadian-born painter's art by John Bentley Mays

Spotlight

Sponsored by The Fraser Elliot Foundation in memory of Betty Ann Elliot The New Exhibitionists: Performance in the 21st Century by Randy Gledhill