Andreas Gursky: Interview with Insight

Andreas Gursky is one of the world’s best-known contemporary photographers. Now, on the occasion of an extensive show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gursky talks in-depth about his work—including a first-ever self-portrait—with critic Nancy Tousley.

by Nancy Tousley

Mark Lewis: So Much to See

The Canada-born, U.K.-based filmmaker Mark Lewis takes his exquisitely challenging work to the Venice Biennale

by Nancy Tousley

The Outlaw

Clad in a leather jacket and motorcycle boots, Liz Magor reclines on a rustic sofa in one corner of her East Vancouver studio. It could be the view through the window of one of her backwoods-cabin installations—the sort of mise en scène for which she is known.

by Deborah Campbell

Days of the Dead

Jack Burman's photographs honour the living by telling the truth about death

by John Bentley Mays

Boss Bear

The sculptors John McEwen and Dennis Gill and I are running a small skiff down a wilderness river to Georgian Bay. It’s a peaceful late-September afternoon but I know that we’re being watched by moose, deer, birds and beavers. And while there may well be bears out there too, for sure we’ve got one in the boat.

by Michael Mitchell

China Time

The Canadian painter Matthew Carver saw the recent boom in Chinese contemporary art first-hand. He tracks his experiences back from the exhibition “The Revolution Continues” at the Saatchi Gallery in London last fall

by Matthew Carver

Instant Coffee: Gimme Shelter

Do only the socially strong survive? That’s a question raised by art collective Instant Coffee’s latest work, Disco Fallout Shelter. Though visually enticing, the bunker seems to shut viewers out of the party rather than invite them in.

Martha Wilson: Staging the Self

New York artist Martha Wilson got her start back in the conceptualist heyday of 1970s Halifax. Now, more than 30 years later, the Dalhousie Art Gallery invites Wilson to return with an exhibition that documents her life and work since those early days.

David R Harper: As for Me and My Horse

In the last few years, the young Nova Scotia–based artist David R. Harper has generated considerable intrigue with his unusual sculptures of embroidered animals. Harper’s latest work, on exhibit at Calgary’s Stride Gallery to May 9, continues this practice.

Jon Sasaki: Positive Thinking

For Nuit Blanche 2008, Jon Sasaki set 26 mascots loose on a stadium field, certain that boredom would quickly set in. Instead, the mascots danced all night to the crowd’s delight. This lesson in positivity over pathos rings through Sasaki’s latest exhibition.