Features
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”
The Green Cube
How much waste do exhibitions produce? More than you’d think. How many museums are sustainably built? Fewer than you’d think. A story about what Canadian cultural institutions are doing to reduce their footprints—and about what we choose not to see
Art Auction Picks for Social 2018
Now in its 23rd year, Social 2018 offers one of the largest live and silent contemporary art auctions in Canada, and is an essential source of funding for Canadian Art
Fair-Weather Funding
What would it take to ensure that institutional diversity is not a passing fad?
The Haida Language on Film, in Depth and at Last
A conversation with Gwaai Edenshaw: jeweller, carver and co-director of the world’s first Haida-language feature film
The Little Blue Cabin That Could
Against the backdrop of skyrocketing real estate prices, a group of Vancouverites mobilizes to save a small fragment of local art history from destruction
Where Do We Go From Here?
Are specialized fine-arts programs in high schools—such as Toronto's Etobicoke School of the Arts—prep schools for potential BFAs, replicating the art-world's inequalities? Or are they a necessary evolution in secondary-school arts education?
Do Canada’s Art Laws Need to Change?
The nation’s major museums are pushing for a speedy appeal to a recent court ruling. But is it the ruling, or the law itself, that needs to change?
#MeToo at the Museum
Two Canadian museums have tried to address #MeToo in their programs lately—and gotten a lot of things wrong. What is the way forward?
Late Arrivals
In contemporary culture, we take for granted that everything is accelerating. But what happens when a book of the moment takes years to be published in your mother tongue?
Broadcasting Beckett
How Stan Douglas’s only solo curatorial project to date helped transform a literary icon into a contemporary artist