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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”
Remove! Replace! Restore!
I want to think about climate change outside of meteorology, and think of it instead as a form of industrial toxicity
Hard Lessons from the AGO’s Kusama Crowdfunding Problems
The Art Gallery of Ontario set out to raise $1.3 million in 30 days for a new Infinity Room. It ended up with half of that. Here are a few takeaways
I Don’t Know Where to Find Sweetgrass
Last year, in a forest outside the Banff Centre, artist Meagan Musseau braided bright orange surveyor’s tape around a spruce tree—to express gratitude for the land and reclaim the ancestral knowledge that lay in her hands. Here, Erin Sutherland, in conversation with Meagan Musseau, explores that action further
Saw Your Instagram
Dream catchers, incense, crystals—an Indigenous story about your witchy souvenirs
Crisis Photography in Focus, and None Too Soon
As photos of California fires and Yemeni starvation dominate newsfeeds, the Ryerson Image Centre mounts a critical look at photographs of past crises
Marina Roy’s X Factors
Bridging the Freudian and the functional, the lovely and the lewd, Marina Roy’s art makes an inventory of interior worlds and their exterior contexts
Between Two Ferns
Why are there so many houseplants in contemporary art? It's the economy, stupid
From the Waterline
An artist’s first-hand account of the ocean, and everything we put in it
On Heat
Rising temperatures may provide a guide for thinking through how the colonial, the racial and the capitalist are deeply—and materially—implicated and intertwined
Focus California at Art Toronto
Mapping landscapes, tracing cultural shifts and exploring connections between high art and pop culture, between East and West—these are just some of the themes in Kim Nguyen and Glen Helfand's co-curated exhibition