Essays
On the Life and Death (and Life) of Dancemakers
In November, the board of directors at Dancemakers said it would close, after a 46-year run. Then in February, a new board took the reins, with a new, in-process vision
On the Life and Death (and Life) of Dancemakers
In November, the board of directors at Dancemakers said it would close, after a 46-year run. Then in February, a new board took the reins, with a new, in-process vision
P.Mansaram (1934–2020): A Canadian Artist in, and of, the World
Born in India, Mansaram spent most of his life in Canada, where he defied the hyphenated ways that the art world categorizes diasporic artists
Listening in Reciprocity
The natural world invites us into the indescribable yet intimately heard—what does it mean to move beyond hearing and truly listen?
How To Not Disappear
The importance of Chinatown and Chinese Canadian art history in a time of anti-Asian violence and a re-emerging Yellow Peril
Scent and Sensibility
These artists making work about scent expose the personal and political implications of the aesthetics of smell
A Topography of Free
A Toronto installation artist accumulates materials for her found-object sculptures by navigating neighbourhood free piles and scouring curbside detritus
Wearing Fur in the City
An Indigenous woman’s perspective on cultural empowerment, safety and protection
Red Dust and Black Clay
For communities committed to abolition and decolonization, clay is the ground, the container, the frame and the fire where we tell each other our stories, where we rest together and where we slow down
What Ever Happened to Felicia Montealegre?
A distant relative of the wife of Leonard Bernstein looks at her creative and family life, on and off the stage
Memory Work
Two powerful photographs of a 1986 workers’ strike suggest the dystopian consequences of collective forgetting
The Territory of the Unsmelled
Smell can be both a memory and a chemical compound that triggers reactions in organisms—human, animal and insect