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
Art Along the Autoroute
The uncanny mythology of a stretch of highway between Montreal and Quebec City is the inspiration for an intriguing art show on the road.
In Vancouver, Elad Lassry Brims With Absurdity
His first Canadian survey, co-curated by Jeff Wall, is eerie, vulgar and sexy.
Artists Unsettle Colonized Notions of Two-Spirit Life
Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival presented work that included satirical dating websites and portrait blankets—defying an anthropological, one-sided gaze.
Halifax Report: Not for a Long Time
This summer, Halifax art ebbs and flows with themes of movement and return.
Winnipeg Report: The Treaty Is in the Body
The brown gaze. The individual who is also the state. The marking of Indigenous presence and erasure. These are themes of some recent, vital Winnipeg shows.
Montreal Report: Darkness in Summer
Summer has arrived in Montreal—and with it a carnival air—so naturally, I've fled indoors to watch hours of video art.
Reclaiming Indigenous Territories, Bead by Bead
Anishinaabe artist Olivia Whetung fuses ancestral knowledge and Google Maps to create work that is political and provocative.
For Meaningful Art, Look to Small Communities
Many of the most important conversations about art and community happen outside of urban centres. A recent exhibition in Victoria drove this home.
The Devil and Jerry Ropson
In which a bayman artist comes home to Newfoundland, lays out the contents of his pack, and sets to kissing a goat between the horns.
Unlearning the Vancouver School
A new Vancouver exhibition challenges the perception of photoconceptualism as glossy and apolitical—and upends the idea that it dominates local image-making.