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
A Sense of Scale
Jim Adams’s recurring mythic subjects—from microcosmic to monumental—are on display in “Eternal Witness,” the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles for the artist, whose practice spans five decades
Porn and Privacy in Mia Sandhu’s “Golden Girls”
Based on images from the so-called Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and ’80s, Sandhu's subtly sinister works on paper raise questions about whose bodies end up on display
Unrequited Love
In June Clark’s reconfigurations, the US flag and all it represents is broken into pieces
From 14-Storey Berry Freezer to Public Video-Art Venue
In August 2020, Sackville’s Owens Art Gallery, Struts Gallery and Faucet Centre, and Sappyfest held a queer-centred screening on a vast industrial “cube”
Roughing It in Toronto
In his new book on Toronto art, Luis Jacob examines how colonialism and its erasures—along with hidden ravines and tangled gardens—have had a defining influence on the city’s creative ecology
Embracing the Uncertainty of the Earth with Jeneen Frei Njootli
In their latest solo show, Jeneen Frei Njootli spoke to the loving yet trying dependency that we, as Indigenous people, can have in connection to ancestral territories
How Amy Lam’s Make-Believe Bathroom Offers Real Relief
This virtual artwork showed that, in the wake of the virus, the lack of will or public policy to make washrooms safe and accessible has exacerbated brutal discrepancies
On Syrus Marcus Ware’s Monuments to Trans Lives—and Brilliance
A review of the luminous public art installation Radical Love
Zanis Waldheims
Geometric drawings and diagrams by a little-known artist raise questions about the relationship between exile and abstraction
Piece of Work
Recent presentations of Amalia Ulman’s work at Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal and Tate Modern raise questions about labour, art and the image