Features / December 1, 2009

Fun with Mythmaking

"Fun with Mythmaking" by Philip Monk, Winter 2009, pp. 94-97

Philip Monk

Philip Monk is a Toronto writer. His latest book, Migrating the Margins: Circumlocating the Future of Toronto Art (AGYU, 2019), was co-written with Emelie Chhangur. Monk is the 2021 recipient of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Founders Achievement Award. All of his writing, from 1977 on, can be accessed at Reading Philip Monk: philipmonk.com.

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