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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”
Andreas Gursky: Interview with Insight
Andreas Gursky is one of the world’s best-known contemporary photographers. Now, on the occasion of an extensive show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gursky talks in-depth about his work—including a first-ever self-portrait—with critic Nancy Tousley.
Mark Lewis: So Much to See
The Canada-born, U.K.-based filmmaker Mark Lewis takes his exquisitely challenging work to the Venice Biennale
The Outlaw
Clad in a leather jacket and motorcycle boots, Liz Magor reclines on a rustic sofa in one corner of her East Vancouver studio. It could be the view through the window of one of her backwoods-cabin installations—the sort of mise en scène for which she is known.
Days of the Dead
Jack Burman's photographs honour the living by telling the truth about death
Boss Bear
The sculptors John McEwen and Dennis Gill and I are running a small skiff down a wilderness river to Georgian Bay. It’s a peaceful late-September afternoon but I know that we’re being watched by moose, deer, birds and beavers. And while there may well be bears out there too, for sure we’ve got one in the boat.
China Time
The Canadian painter Matthew Carver saw the recent boom in Chinese contemporary art first-hand. He tracks his experiences back from the exhibition “The Revolution Continues” at the Saatchi Gallery in London last fall
Instant Coffee: Gimme Shelter
Do only the socially strong survive? That’s a question raised by art collective Instant Coffee’s latest work, Disco Fallout Shelter. Though visually enticing, the bunker seems to shut viewers out of the party rather than invite them in.
Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
New York artist Martha Wilson got her start back in the conceptualist heyday of 1970s Halifax. Now, more than 30 years later, the Dalhousie Art Gallery invites Wilson to return with an exhibition that documents her life and work since those early days.
David R Harper: As for Me and My Horse
In the last few years, the young Nova Scotia–based artist David R. Harper has generated considerable intrigue with his unusual sculptures of embroidered animals. Harper’s latest work, on exhibit at Calgary’s Stride Gallery to May 9, continues this practice.
Jon Sasaki: Positive Thinking
For Nuit Blanche 2008, Jon Sasaki set 26 mascots loose on a stadium field, certain that boredom would quickly set in. Instead, the mascots danced all night to the crowd’s delight. This lesson in positivity over pathos rings through Sasaki’s latest exhibition.