Reviews
On Charles Campbell and the Underrepresentation of Caribbean Art in Canada
The Jamaica-born, Victoria-based artist has shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami—but only recently had his first Vancouver solo show
On Charles Campbell and the Underrepresentation of Caribbean Art in Canada
The Jamaica-born, Victoria-based artist has shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami—but only recently had his first Vancouver solo show
Difficult Intimacies
Video works by Steve Reinke, James Richards and Ellen Cantor address love, desire and the body as sacrificial material.
Antimatter, Earthworms, Stardust—and Painting
Collaborating with contemporary physicists and ancient artists, Marina Roy explores how birth and death, beginning and end, have existed throughout painting.
How to Stay in Your Lane
The questionable ethics in British artist Michael Landy’s participatory protest exhibition in Toronto.
The Mindlessness of Mindfulness
Revisiting Jeremy Shaw’s 2017 Venice Biennale film Liminals—a parody of past and present mindfulness crazes, and an incidental critique of the Biennale’s whimsical, facile take on spirituality.
The US-Mexico Border, Reframed
“Frontera” at the National Gallery of Canada highlights a contested borderline, but ultimately reinforces ideas of “us” versus “them”
Contemporary Paintings from Clickbait
Ron Terada paints online headlines onto large-scale canvases in his latest series, which critiques technology’s incursions into our lives.
Questions about Painting
The Vancouver Art Gallery has taken a curiously divided approach to exhibiting painting over the course of 2017—an approach that reflects wider unease.
Out from among the Tranquil Woods
Using fungi, insects and pearls in innovative ways, artist Xiaojing Yan connects Chinese myths with Canadian suburbs.
Halifax Report: What Makes a Gallery?
These three Halifax organizations are changing perceptions of what an art space can be.
VR and the Failure of Self-Help Technology
A virtual-reality art exhibition in Toronto reveals that even the most complex technologies can’t solve the riddles of human emotion.