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David Merritt: Roping Viewers In

David Merritt: Roping Viewers In

David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.

Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields

Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields

Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.

Vancouver Report: The Remains of the Olympiad

Vancouver Report: The Remains of the Olympiad

Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.

Francine Savard

Francine Savard

The 63 works on display in Francine Savard’s mid-career retrospective, curated by Lesley Johnstone, express intellectual and philosophical concepts with refined, graphic precision.

Playing Homage

Playing Homage

In recent years, re-enactment, in various guises, has become rich terrain for artists and exhibition-makers alike.

Jordan Broadworth

Jordan Broadworth

Jordan Broadworth’s paintings remind me of the afterimages one experiences when glimpsing illuminated signage in the urban landscape.

Judy Radul

Judy Radul

The work of Judy Radul often troubles the process of how one comes to think of one thing as true and another false.

Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans

The last big Tuymans show I saw was at London’s Tate Modern about five years ago.

In-Finitum

In-Finitum

Within the labyrinthine streets of Venice is a Gothic building that recently hosted the ambitious and unusual exhibition “In-finitum.”

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

Expectations were high for Anish Kapoor’s latest exhibition, which marked the first time a living artist has been given free rein in the Royal Academy.