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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”
Covidian Catastrophes
I think of the virus, invisible to the naked eye, which has wreaked such havoc in such an achingly short time, and see the parallel with another virus, albeit metaphorical—the virus of greed that spawned that earlier global disruption and destruction of nations, peoples, cultures
Art for Strange Times
While we’re living and working in separation, art offers connection, distraction and ways to find ourselves anew. Here, five Canadian Art editors share what we’ve been looking at over the past week
Has “No Tolerance” for Harassment in the Arts Really Worked?
More than two years ago, the Canada Council and Canadian Heritage vowed “no tolerance” for harassment in organizations they fund. But by many indications, there’s still a long way to go
Resonant Signals
A national survey of 10 artists who find new meaning in networks of change
Always Being Moved
When we widen what we understand to be the scope of influence, a different kind of recognition becomes possible
Time Is Different Now
“I wanted to get away from making art about art,” says Ron Terada, whose latest series of paintings turns instead toward a current, collective moment
Don’t Eat the Pictures
To mark her first Canadian solo exhibition, we look at the consumable work of Stephanie Temma Hier, who collapses art-historical timelines with wry wit and whimsy
Wet’suwet’en Strong
Who are the Indigenous artists on the front lines of the land defence and protest rallies for Wet’suwet’en?
Free Radicals
The Centre for Experimental Art and Communication was both the darling and delinquent of the 1970s Toronto art scene
What to See in 2020: The Atlantic and the North
When I looked at Canadian Art’s recent article “What to See in 2020,” I saw nothing from the Atlantic or the North. In response, here are my suggestions, as a Halifax-based curator, of what to see