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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”
Lawrence Weiner Lecture: The Writing on the Wall
Lawrence Weiner’s bound to get a large turnout this week when he lectures in Toronto in advance of a solo show at the Power Plant. Showing both past wall works and a new installation, this conceptual-art legend is a must-see.
Nestor Krüger: Geezus
What if, rather than wiping the space clean and providing a blank slate, an exhibition bore evidence of the shows that came before it? That's the question that drives Toronto-based artist Nestor Krüger’s most recent show at Goodwater.
Adam David Brown: White Noise and other Bounties
With financial markets plunging around the world, it is perhaps a good time to consider economies of scarcity. Toronto artist Adam David Brown serves plenty up in his less-is-more solo show at MKG 127.
Dream Scenes
At the heart of David Hoffos's Scenes From the House Dream lies a dream about a house. Most of us have had a dream about a house at one time or another, even a recurring house dream, but here is the difference between a wizard illusionist like Hoffos and the rest of us.
Sympathy for the Devil
Rock and roll meets the art world in Montreal
Pop’s Art
On one occasion when I was a teenager, I found myself at what was then known as the Musée du Québec for an opening of my dad’s. I walked into a room, went straight to a painting that had until recently hung in my bedroom and stroked it.
What Museums Are For
When the Art Gallery of Ontario reopened in mid-November, I dodged the long lines and cold rain by showing up at 11pm—the museum was open until midnight on Friday and Saturday. Ignoring the architecture—the massive sheets of glass and titanium and beams of wood and steel I had watched being assembled over the past year—I headed straight for the permanent Canadian collection...
A Spy in the House of History (with apologies to Anaïs Nin)
The stuff (and sometimes nonsense) of classic espionage fictions, ranging from Joseph Conrad’s novels to countless pulp page-turners and comic books, from cinematic masterpieces to B movies—yet all, in the forgotten histories painstakingly resurrected by the Toronto-based multimedia artist Nina Levitt, brutally, heartbreakingly real.
Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party: All Power to the People
This weekend marks the final opportunity for Canadians to view “All Power to the People,” a striking exhibition of Black Panther Party posters, newspaper graphics and broadsheets on loan from Los Angeles’s Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
Patrick Bernatchez: The Chrysalides Trilogy
It can be hard to know what to make of Patrick Bernatchez’s cinematic, otherworldly video installations. Now a new exhibition offers a considered view of the emerging Montrealer’s recent production—including the world premiere of a beguiling new video.