Reviews
On Charles Campbell and the Underrepresentation of Caribbean Art in Canada
The Jamaica-born, Victoria-based artist has shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami—but only recently had his first Vancouver solo show
On Charles Campbell and the Underrepresentation of Caribbean Art in Canada
The Jamaica-born, Victoria-based artist has shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami—but only recently had his first Vancouver solo show
An Indigenous Feminist Defines Beauty for the Next Generation
How Tlingit artist Alison Marks challenged colonial gender roles and expectations in her recent exhibition “One Gray Hair.”
Montreal Report: The Unresolved Echo
Three recent exhibitions offer a dialogue with the past to reflect on the present.
In the Eye of the Storm
Caroline Monnet’s solo exhibition “Like Ships in the Night” offers new perspectives on communication
The Politics of the Archive
By focusing on captions in the NFB archive, Althea Thauberger shows how Canadian collections—and their curators—both conceal and reveal white privilege.
Halifax Report: When Audiences Become Artists
A look at three projects that spur participation, and allow visitors to access art in vulnerable and intimate ways.
Love Poems for Ceres
To pine for planets or gods is to gaze upwards. In a new book of poems and drawings, artist Alex Turgeon aims high by using a supple approach to language and line.
Vancouver Report: Crafting a Way Out
Through felting, needlepoint, ceramics, woodwork and more, three Vancouver exhibitions offer a means of eliding the era of Big Data.
Ottawa Report: Making Spaces Speak
Whether working with masking tapes, unstable ceramics or text messages, the artists behind these three shows create impressive immersive installations.
Surveillance Romance
In their first major solo exhibition—and on the verge of a Berlinale spotlight—artist duo Bambitchell studies the aesthetics of camouflage.
The Women Who Could Transform Acadian Art
Two years ago, curator Elise Anne LaPlante started a research project to make space for women excluded from the Acadian art canon.