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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”
RAFF 2010: Q&A with Colette Urban, Katherine Knight and Barbara Fischer
In this video, taped during the 2010 Reel Artists Film Festival in Toronto, Newfoundland artist Colette Urban and Toronto artist Katherine Knight, director of a film about Urban titled Pretend Not to See Me, join curator Barbara Fischer in conversation.
Samuel Keller Discusses Ernst Beyeler & Beyeler Foundation at RAFF 2010
In this video, Samuel Keller, head of the Beyeler Foundation, talks at the first screen homage to late Art Basel founder Ernst Beyeler.
Proposal (Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown) for Toronto
When asked, a few months ago, to propose a paper for Canadian Art, following a fruitful research trip to Toronto under the auspices of the Canadian Art Foundation’s Anne Lind International Program, I decided to resist the authority (the vanity?) that would have been implied by writing a linear essay that either narrated my journey or positioned my view on contemporary art and its current developments.
Ragnar Kjartansson: Rocky Mountain Rag
The mythology of Canada’s wilderness has enjoyed a remarkable longevity, and the Rocky Mountains are no exception. Drawn to the remote, ageless nature of the Rockies after a brief visit in 2008, the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson returned to Banff the following year with the musician Davíd Thór Jónsson to create The End (2009).
CSA Space: Small is Good
In a city whose downtown is overrun with pristine minimalist architecture and glass-box condos, Vancouver’s CSA Space gallery offers a welcome reprieve of hardwood floors, solid drywall and industrial lighting. It also presents some of the city’s most innovative visual-arts programming.
Choreographing Meaning: Ian Wallace
Having spent the last three years organizing an exhibition of the work of John Baldessari, I find it difficult to approach the work of Ian Wallace without this fellow West Coast artist in mind.
Searching for Dan Graham
A global tour of the American artist’s enigmatic pavilion works
War Artist
For students bounding up the stairwell of the University of British Columbia’s humanities library, laden with textbooks and life plans, the massive photograph of eight Canadian soldiers re-enacting a military exercise in a fake Afghan village must have felt like an ambush.
The Iconoclast
In 1993, the board of Stride Gallery, a funhouse of an artist-run centre in Calgary, decided it was time to throw another party in the guise of a fundraiser. The event was organized behind the back of one board member: that long-haired, balding, bearded, round-bellied, perpetually cigarette-smoking figure was to be kept in the dark.
2010 Canadian Art Editorial Residency Winner Announced
OCAD MFA student Sky Goodden has been selected to receive this year’s $7,000 national prize.