Features / August 4, 2011

Catherine Crowston: Partner in Art

Opening spread for “Partner in Art” by Amy Fung, Canadian Art, Summer 2011, pp 56–7 / photo Jimmy Jeong

Amy Fung

Amy Fung is a writer and organizer working across intersections of histories and identities. Her first book, Before I Was a Critic, I Was a Human Being (Artspeak and Book*hug 2019) addresses Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism and settler colonialism through the lens of a national art critic .

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Features / May 16, 2018

Dirty Words: Appropriation

Aylan Couchie, Raven Davis and Chief Lady Bird address the emotional fallout of cultural appropriation in a conversation moderated by Lindsay Nixon

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Features / May 9, 2018

Dirty Words: Sensitive

In 1992, a work by African American artist Carrie Mae Weems sparked protests from Black Nova Scotia students who called it racist.

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Features / May 7, 2018

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In this excerpt from her new memoir, influential artist Gathie Falk describes her early childhood, her first art lessons, and why she dropped out of school.

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Features / May 3, 2018

When Allyship Breaks Down

Aruna D'Souza's forthcoming book Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts reviews three incidents in the long and troubled relationship between race and the art world.

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Features / April 26, 2018