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Toronto Now

In this set of group portraits, Canadian Art offers a cross-section of the artists and individuals shaping the current Toronto scene
by photographer George Whiteside
"Toronto Now" by George Whiteside, Winter 2007, pp. 58-73 "Toronto Now" by George Whiteside, Winter 2007, pp. 58-73

"Toronto Now" by George Whiteside, Winter 2007, pp. 58-73

The Moment
Moments change, as do styles of art-making, but some artists engage with approaches and attitudes that put them in sync with wider art-world currents. Since the beginning of this decade, the core of contemporary art has been its hybridity—the conceptualist working across media that elide art, social space and mass culture. Questions of identity and consumer critique—mainstay themes of art in the 1990s—have evolved. The current moment in art is framed by explorations of the construction of subjectivity. The result is an art that meshes history, politics, culture and psychology with a pressing awareness of global simultaneity.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Luis Jacob, Stephen Andrews, Kelly Mark (foreground), Allyson Mitchell, An Te Liu, Scott Lyall, Tania Kitchell and Kristan Horton. Photographed in Grange Park, Thursday, September 27, 2007.

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This article was first published online on December 11, 2007.

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