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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”
Immony Men in Halifax
Just as British comedian Ricky Gervais reinterpreted the drama and drudgery of 9-to-5 life to small-screen acclaim with BBC comedy hit The Office, Montreal artist Immony Men takes a similar, Staples-friendly tack towards crafting amusing contemporary art in his exhibition “Taking Care of Business.”
Geoffrey James in Kitchener
Photographer Geoffrey James joins artists Kelly Richardson, Jennifer Stead and Alex Cameron in a series of recently opened landscape exhibitions on view at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
“1973: Sorry, Out of Gas” in Montreal
Like an old scrapbook that we open years later, “Out of Gas” takes us back to the 1973 oil crisis and reminds us of how much we have forgotten of those times when driving a car was banned on Sundays by many European governments and gas was rationed in the United States.
Arabella Campbell wins 2007 RBC Canadian Painting Competition
TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007: RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, has named Vancouver artist Arabella Campbell the national winner of the ninth annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Cross-Country
Art professionals offer thoughts about Canada's largest city and art scene
Stephen Andrews: Picture Maker
The Toronto artist Stephen Andrews taps into the power of process, portraiture and "embracing the given"
Only the Precarious
It was one of Buckminster Fuller's poetic and provocative theses that the galvanizing of the world ecology movement, such as it is, essentially happened in 1968 when we all got our first long, steady, photographic look at our blue planet, hanging in space, isolated, bounded.
The Missing
In January, 2007, Pierre Dorion returned from a pilgrimage he made to the Hamburger Kunsthalle—pilgrimage being the operative word. He travelled to Hamburg for one reason only: to take in a once-in-a-lifetime retrospective exhibition of works by Caspar David Friedrich, whose early-19th-century Romantic paintings Dorion reveres.
Shelley Adler: Character Study
For some time now, the art world has been enthralled by Cinderella stories about hot young artists who win the Turner Prize, sell their entire grad shows to the Guggenheim, wind up on the cover of Artforum, that sort of thing. By comparison, traditional scenarios about perfecting one’s craft or finding one’s vision over time seem as outdated as plotlines in a 900-page Russian novel.
With Light: Robert Youds
Since the 1980s, Robert Youds has conducted a singular investigation of the material conditions of the pictorial—a path that has led him from paintings with cut-out apertures through stretched lines of colour made of strands of latex and velvet cushions bound with ropes through to his recent constructions incorporating fluorescent, neon and LED lights.