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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”
Lisa Lipton: Life and Love on a Melting Ice Cap
In most fairytales, it is an evil witch or wizard that threatens the “happily ever after” ending. But in Lisa Lipton’s new multimedia installation, “High on a Hill” at the Eastern Edge Gallery until April 19, global warming plays the antagonist in a tale of a pair of Alpine lovers whose clichéd romance is threatened by melting ice caps.
When fairs are foul: Curator Jens Hoffmann on the current state of the art world
In this March 3 telephone interview, San Francisco-based curator Jens Hoffman opens up to Leah Sandals about market forces, globalization processes and institutional change—some of the factors that prompt his call for "true innovation" in the curatorial realm in his essay Archaeologies of the Present in the current issue of Canadian Art.
Nina Levitt: Red Herrings and Real Herstories
We often hear that a historical figure has disappeared “into thin air.” But have they really vanished, or are we just not digging deep enough in the archives?
Simon Starling: Shell-shocking the Big City
Dealing with production delays due to materials shortages, labour strikes and the like are not unheard of in contemporary galleries. But dealing with delays due to the sluggishness of some nonverbal, hard-shelled invertebrate helpers, well… that’s a little rarer.
John Richardson on the Life of Picasso
Speaking at Canadian Art’s second International Lecture of 2008, noted art historian John Richardson discusses his book A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, the third volume of his biography on the famed painter, with Canadian Art Editor Richard Rhodes.
A China Portal: Ken Lum Meets Chen Zhen
The Canadian artist Ken Lum remembers an inspiring encounter in Paris with the late Chinese artist Chen Zhen, from our Spring 2008 print issue
Back-Door Beauty: Gerald Ferguson’s Paintings
Fifteen years of frottage painting by Gerald Ferguson
Archaeologies of the Present
A curator's view of the scramble for influence among biennials, museums and art fairs in today's art world
Melvin Charney: Anthropomorphic Joggers and Urban Crawl
What with their speeding traffic and icy concrete, cities, though human-designed, can seem rather human-unfriendly places. Artist and architect Melvin Charney has thought long and hard on these things, making drawings, sculptures and no small amount of political controversy on the topic.
Phyllis Lambert and Lisa Rochon at RAFF 2008
Listen in as Lambert, founder of the world-renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture, discusses her life in New York and Paris in the early 1950s and her famous selection of Mies van der Rohe as architect of New York’s Seagram Building.