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8 Texts on Indigenous Art That Put Things in Perspective

8 Texts on Indigenous Art That Put Things in Perspective

Richard William Hill rounds up must-read essays, books and critiques that shape how Indigenous art discourses have developed—and how they continue today.

Vancouver at the Movies

Vancouver at the Movies

Photoconceptualism has defined decades of art in Vancouver, but this branding is reductive. A closer look reveals another, stronger current: cinema.

The Social-Mediafication of Museums

The Social-Mediafication of Museums

Corporate personhood is a fact of contemporary life—and its logic is increasingly seeping into our art institutions.

The Violence of Cultural Appropriation

The Violence of Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation is not limited to Halloween. In the art world, an artist's so-called freedom often entails making Indigenous bodies expendable.

My Mother Gave Me My IMFA—Indigenous Master’s of Fine Arts

My Mother Gave Me My IMFA—Indigenous Master’s of Fine Arts

Raven Davis’s mother offered a more robust art education than any extended-studies or PhD program, underscoring importance of alternate knowledge models.

Anxiety Art for a New Era

Anxiety Art for a New Era

In a hyper-medicated, social-media age, images give an unprecedented, voyeuristic window into anxiety—and where it dovetails with the performance of gender.

Hospitals Are Also Museums

Hospitals Are Also Museums

For many of us, hospitals are the first and last places we see art. So who decides what is on display? And what is the psychological impact of hospital art?

When Art Can’t Survive

When Art Can’t Survive

We hope that art perseveres—even flourishes—under governments that resist and underfund it. But it doesn’t always happen that way.

Art in 2016: No Place Like Home

Art in 2016: No Place Like Home

Coming-of-age novels, Liz Magor’s surprisingly moving exhibition didactics and Banff all affected a critic whose year was marked by travel and solitude.

Art in 2016: Insides and Outs

Art in 2016: Insides and Outs

In a year characterized by division and discord, culture had a choice—to retreat, or to explore startling forms of subjectivity and intimacy.