Features
In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
The Malcolmson Collection: A Passion for Photography, and its Evolution
Over the years, Toronto couple Harry and Ann Malcolmson have assembled one of the most important private photography collections in North America. Now, with a show of their collection on in Vancouver, the Malcolmsons sit down for an in-depth chat with critic Nancy Tousley.
…I Shed No Tears
Arthur Renwick’s photography combines beauty and politics
Beautiful Disasters
Last summer, on a warm, clear day, a breezy afternoon appropriately close to the magical, dreamy stroke of Midsummer’s Eve, a deceptively simple work of art induced in me a feeling I’d thought my art-weary eyes (soul?— I wish) had lost long ago—wonder.
The Master of Quiet
In this feature from our Winter 2009 issue, critic E.C. Woodley spends time in Montreal with Fernand Leduc, a central figure in the Automatiste movement. Now in his eighties, the artist continues to work on striking and rigorous monochrome canvases.
Reece Terris: Model Suites
Few artists have as hands-on a relationship with the built environment as Vancouver’s Reece Terris, who has supported his interdisciplinary studies and practice by working as a builder and general contractor.
Lynne Cohen: Come Inside
For more than three decades, Lynne Cohen’s genius has been to pause in transitional spaces, think about them, look carefully and take photographs. And not just any photographs, but ones made with a large-format view camera, the tool that most fully exploits the medium’s capacity for deep description.
Take Two
Repetition, reproduction and return have been persistent themes in art production for more than half a century now. The latest variation on this repro mania is re-enactment. Events as diverse as 19th-century pageants, miners’ strikes, feminist protests and Hollywood films have been obsessively researched and restaged by artists in the last few years.
Fun with Mythmaking
What General Idea taught us about Canadian history.
Iris Häussler: Brilliant Disguise
Fact meets fiction in Iris Häussler’s installation odysseys
Ross King on the Group of Seven: White Feathers and Tangled Gardens
In this article from the Winter 2009 issue of Canadian Art, author Ross King looks at the development of one of Canada's most iconic art circles, the Group of Seven. The article is an excerpt from his new book Modern Spirits, which looks at the long-neglected European connections of the group.