Essays
On the Life and Death (and Life) of Dancemakers
In November, the board of directors at Dancemakers said it would close, after a 46-year run. Then in February, a new board took the reins, with a new, in-process vision
On the Life and Death (and Life) of Dancemakers
In November, the board of directors at Dancemakers said it would close, after a 46-year run. Then in February, a new board took the reins, with a new, in-process vision
Is It Time to Rethink the Sobey Art Award’s Age Limit?
Earlier this year, the UK’s Turner Prize dropped its age restriction. Perhaps Canada’s Sobey Art Award should consider doing the same.
What Losing 401 Richmond Could Mean
New tax calculations put the Toronto art haven under threat, and the implications are far-reaching.
Against the Souvenir: Thinking Through Canada 150
In this modified transcript of a talk given earlier this year, David Balzer considers settler-colonial kitsch and celebration, and how they can be undone.
This Work Is Not for You
“This issue is a love letter to all my fierce and fabulous relations—my NDN baby girls, women or otherwise—who ground their work in kinship teachings.”
The Catalogue Is Not the Exhibition
Indigenous art exhibition catalogues are vital for research, writes Richard Hill—and they need to start entering the digital realm.
The Working Life of a Cultural Amnesiac
The professional observations of a youth-support worker in Whitehorse have contributed to a mythic conflict in his artistic practice.
Making Space in Indigenous Art for Bull Dykes and Gender Weirdos
It’s about time for the Indigenous art canon to create a space for gender-variant and sexually diverse voices. They’ve been mostly excluded for decades.
All That We Touch, We Change
Octavia E. Butler’s books uncannily prophesy the world we now live in, but are also potential manuals for resistance, writes Syrus Marcus Ware.
Structures: On Legacy, History and Influence
In light of the passing of former editor of artscanada Barry Lord, Bryne McLaughlin considers the publication's history, and the theme of our Spring issue.
On Being Unlikeable
What characterizes the next wave of trans literature? Characters who are given the opportunity to be angry, to be selfish and to make mistakes.