Reviews
Brontez Purnell
In this project, the artist, writer, arthouse film director and frontman of the punk band The Younger Lovers exuded candid pathos and humour over Zoom
Brontez Purnell
In this project, the artist, writer, arthouse film director and frontman of the punk band The Younger Lovers exuded candid pathos and humour over Zoom
Pascal Grandmaison
Stanley Kubrick wasn’t much for dialogue. He let the camera tell the story, often leaving his viewers wading through a narrative in a bath of visually expressed ideas.
Yannick Pouliot
You might feel like you’ve stumbled into a highend furniture store upon entering Yannick Pouliot’s exhibition.
Charles Stankievech
The title of Charles Stankievech’s sparse solo exhibition “Horror Vacui” refers to the fear of empty spaces associated with Outsider art and psychedelic imagery.
Constellations
In “Constellations,” Sara Angelucci has curated a thoughtful exhibition of work by two artists who use found materials and the medium of light to seek reconciliation with the complex legacies of the Second World War.
Adrian Fish
A theatre is a familiar space. Its basic structure of proscenium stage plus auditorium dates back to ancient Greece and was adopted throughout the world without many radical changes.
Martin Bennett
When Manet cited Raphael in Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863), he did it by way of an engraving—Marcantonio Raimondi’s reduction of the lost Judgment of Paris—that functioned as a schematic by which Manet brought Raphael back to canvas.
Dil Hildebrand
The Winnipeg-born Montreal artist Dil Hildebrand is already big for his britches.
Exponential Future
Exponential Future,” an exhibit of eight young Vancouver artists co-curated by Juan Gaitán and Scott Watson, provokes a very simple question: what kind of future is this?
Lee Bul
Never before having visited the Fondation Cartier, I had diamond-encrusted visions of the Jean Nouvel–designed building.
James Nizam
There’s a problem with Vancouver photography, and it’s not the fault of the photographers.
From the Archive
Divya Mehra Undoes White on White
“You have to tell Them, I’m not a Racist.” desecrates the white cube with gleeful impunity.
Trouble Me Venice: An Indigenous Curator’s View of the Biennale
Ryan Rice was part of an international delegation of Indigenous curators at Venice's preview week. Here are some of the triumphs and troubles he saw.
Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?
Rosalyn Drexler, the proto-feminist painter, sculptor, playwright, novelist and former lady wrester, is criminally unknown. A new show aims to change this.