Reviews
We Didn’t Grow From Nothing
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival's Local Pals Residency films recently screened at the plumb, all exploring kinship, land and the embodiment of memory
We Didn’t Grow From Nothing
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival's Local Pals Residency films recently screened at the plumb, all exploring kinship, land and the embodiment of memory
Sue Lloyd
Unravelling the threads of meaning in the 13 images that constitute Sue Lloyd’s newest body of digital work, “VOID,” resembles the impossible task of reading for univocal meaning in Virginia Woolf ’s experimental novels.
Kent Monkman
The 19th century was an extraordinary period of colonization and cultural expansion. The European powers vied with one another to seize land and explorers were dispatched to open and record these new worlds, annexing territories as they went.
Monica Tap
The desire to make paintings that reflect the ephemeral character of moving pictures is a time-honoured aspiration.
Dean Drever
Potential pain lurks in Dean Drever’s show “Big Guns,” which features works that raise questions about who has the right to inflict violence upon others.
David Urban
As its title suggests, David Urban’s “Actual Fiction” amounts to a one-man status report on the elusive ideals of reality and truth: an ugly-beauty, eat-the-document affair.
Roy Arden
Roy Arden has gained international recognition for his creation of a particularly trenchant brand of photo imagery.
Derek Sullivan
Nine pictures by Derek Sullivan hang on the wall.
Thomas Hirschhorn
For nearly two decades, the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn has been filling art spaces and annexing pedestrian sites with what he likes to call “displays.”
Mark Ruwedel
The history of the settlement of the United States and Canada is psychologically invested with colonial ambitions—to penetrate a fertile wilderness that lies beyond settled borders.
Review: Jason de Haan in Calgary
As with many younger artists these days, Jason de Haan’s practice takes a multiplicity of forms, including sculpture, drawing, photography, performance and bookworks. Rather than adhering to a single style or direction, the Calgary-based artist has developed what seems to be a reverent, though free-flowing, relationship with the discourses of art history and pop culture.
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.