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In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
Julian Schnabel: Great Expectations
Toronto was atwitter last week with the arrival of famed artist Julian Schnabel, who was installing his show “Art and Film” at the AGO. Sky Goodden reports from Schnabel’s press meeting, and wonders about this mighty figure’s seeming return to modesty.
The Art of Compression: Comic Conversations
More than ever, comics are considered a diverse, vibrant and exciting art form. But what defines the medium? What are its potentials and limitations? Critic Kenton Smith explores these issues with Seth, Chester Brown, Jillian Tamaki and other genre leaders.
Donald Weber: Interrogations
I have been working on this photographic account of police work and the underworld in Eastern Europe off and on for the past five years. Documenting police work is far easier in a police state—an ex–police state, I suppose one should say—than it is in Canada.
Reclamation Artist
Jayce Salloum's archival art gives voice to the lost and forgotten.
Edward Burtynsky: Deepwater Blues
Edward Burtynsky documents America's greatest ecological disaster in this feature from the fall 2010 print issue of Canadian Art.
The Khyber Controversy: Three Years’ Grace
For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.
Canadian Art Gallery Hop Vancouver: Panel Discussion
In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.
Extreme Painting
Over the last few years, a new manner of figurative painting—visceral, knowingly banal or aggressively two-fisted, deeply ambivalent about the lightness of the virtual and hostile to the opinion that figurative painting is dead—has emerged in galleries from Toronto and Montreal to New York, Berlin and beyond.
Mobile Perspectives
It’s a bright, frigid, mid-winter morning in Old Montreal, with wind that freezes the eyelashes and numbs the lips gusting up the cobblestone streets, and at this hour the Darling Foundry building for once feels like the magnificent abandoned factory it in fact is.