On Newsstands & Online Now: Canadian Art’s Ideas of North
The cover of the Fall 2011 issue of Canadian Art, featuring artwork by Sarah Anne Johnson
The Fall 2011 issue of Canadian Art hits newsstands across the country this week. This special issue, themed around “ideas of north,” focuses on a number of key artists and residencies that are changing how we think about the vast and diverse Arctic—a place of stark beauty and, with the ever-pressing issue of climate change, great flux.
Highlights of the issue include:
• Contributing editor Nancy Tousley’s cover story on Winnipeg artist Sarah Anne Johnson, shortlisted for this year’s Sobey Art Award, whose most recent photographic work took shape around the Arctic Circle residency
• Bestselling author Timothy Taylor’s riveting essay on his trip to Igloolik to visit award-winning Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, and photographer Donald Weber’s accompanying artist project on Iglooik residents
• Beth Kapusta’s absorbing report on the Cape Farewell project, an internationally renowned travelling Arctic artist residency that takes place on the schooner Noorderlicht
• Sara Angel’s thoughtful revisiting of Joyce Wieland’s landmark National Gallery exhibition “True Patriot Love,” which turns 40 this year
• Critic Murray Whyte’s lively profile on the humorous, subversive work of First Nations artist Terrance Houle; R.M. Vaughan’s visit to Malmö, Sweden, to catch up with Canadian artist duo Soft Turns; and much more!
There’s a trove of extras online, including archival photos of Wieland’s groundbreaking 1971 show; a video of Cape Farewell participants Antony Gormley and Peter Clegg at work on the Svalbard archipelago; a portfolio from Sarah Anne Johnson’s Arctic Wonderland series; a range of images from Terrance Houle’s Urban Indian project; and more!
Don’t miss this timely issue on a region that continues to have a profound effect on our nation’s art! As autumn temperatures drop and the snow starts to fly, there’s no better season to get cozy with Canadian Art, the nation’s most widely read visual-art magazine, and its website, canadianart.ca.
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