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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”
Mary Pratt: 1935–2018
Remembering a major artist who revealed herself through her daily life—and, in turn, changed how we see the world and ourselves
The Curtain Sweeps Down
One of the best-selling novels in modern Turkey was published in 1950 under a male pseudonym. Here, the story of the young translator who kept her work secret for decades, but influenced a generation
There and Here
When Vincent Chevalier travelled from Montreal to Vancouver, as his father did decades earlier, he found a metaphor for coming out and coming of age, on both sides of the AIDS crisis
We Are Each Other’s Medicine
Taylor Renee Aldridge and Jessica Lynne discuss what it means to be Black in an art world that refuses to care for Black people
Beautiful World, Where Are You?
The 2018 Liverpool Biennial avoids the spectacular and instead grounds itself in its location’s conversations
Asking Questions About Mental Health in the Arts
A report from recent Toronto symposium #BigFeels, which gathered artists, arts organizations and mental-health professionals
Beyond Two Solitudes
A conversation on the politics of colonial languages in Quebec
10 Artists Who Work between Meaning and Understanding
From our Summer 2018 issue, 10 cross-country practices that explore the complexities of translation
I Am the Artist Amongst My People
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson catches up with curator Wanda Nanibush and artist Rebecca Belmore to talk about Belmore's new Art Gallery of Ontario show, and the act of making monuments in the presence of community
World Cup Meets White Cube
Artists and curators program soccer-related art for gallery spaces—and kick around ideas about politics and power in the process