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In the Spring 2012 issue of Canadian Art, critic Sarah Milroy interviews Denise Markonish, the MASS MoCA curator who’s created a massive US show of Canadian art. This slideshow offers a special preview of some of the works in the exhibition.
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In Ken Lum’s iconic 1978 video Entertainment for Surrey, the artist stands on an embankment beside a suburban highway. And a strategy of wryly confronting a fast-lane status quo from the margins has marked his work ever since. This supplement to Danielle Egan's Spring 2012 magazine feature "Road to Somewhere" traces Lum's work from early years to the present day.
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What's left to say about this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach and its dozens of concurrent fairs and events? Quite a lot, if you’re looking to know the Canadian artists, dealers and presence there. Find out more in Leah Sandals’ report.
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The landscape and people of eastern Congo, photographed with infrared film, are the basis for Richard Mosse’s remarkable prints at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. In this slideshow, David Balzer mulls the implications, which stretch from Conrad to Hendrix.
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Vancouver’s Reece Terris may well be the hardest-working artist on the national scene these days. In this supplement to Robin Laurence's Winter 2012 issue feature "The Contractor," we look at some images and videos recapping Terris' practice.
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Few might think of a janitor’s room with a motley cache of industrial-grade cleaners, spray bottles, metal lockers, toilet brushes and mops as an ideal site for a sculptural intervention—except, perhaps, Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier. This online supplement on Gauthier's kinetic sculpture, which accompanies Kate Addleman's feature in our Winter 2012 issue, looks at his art from breakthrough years to the present day.
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Over the past decade, the work of Montreal artist Michel de Broin has ranged from a jerry-rigged pedal car in Toronto to a massive, recently unveiled street-lamp sculpture in New Orleans. This slideshow, a supplement to Bryne McLaughlin's feature in our Winter 2012 issue, surveys his works old and new.
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In the Winter 2012 issue of Canadian Art, critic Daniel Baird visits with Vancouver-raised, internationally renowned American artist Jessica Stockholder. This slideshow features a variety of her works, including early installations in Vancouver and Toronto.
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What is the new Inuit reality? What is the future of the Canadian North? In this slideshow drawn from our Fall 2011 issue, award-winning photographer Donald Weber addresses these questions by juxtaposing seal-oil-lamp past and iPhone-friendly present.
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For David Balzer, the Willem de Kooning exhibition now on at New York’s Museum of Modern Art confirms that his art embodies the spirit of the city just as well as it ever did. In it, graffiti’s echoes meet architectural bravado and large-scale views.
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Assistant editor David Balzer’s first fall report from New York, where he's stationed for the season, offers a slideshow from the New York Art Book Fair, as well as reflections on its Canadian connections and American context.
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An Online Supplement to the Fall 2011 issue of Canadian Art
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An Online Supplement to the Fall 2011 Issue of Canadian Art
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An Online Supplement to the Fall 2011 Issue of Canadian Art
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An Online Supplement to the Fall 2011 Print Edition of Canadian Art
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The winner will be published in our magazine and receive a $3,000 award
Toronto's most anticipated art party is slated for Thursday, September 20
Timothy Taylor's feature on Zacharias Kunuk and Douglas Weber's portfolio on Kunuk's hometown recognized
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Jon Rafman’s work enjoys a deservedly high profile at this year’s Contact Festival. As Saelan Twerdy observes in this review, Rafman’s stunning, and often funny, Google Street View scenes demonstrate how the Internet is making everything public, from information to intimacy.
The auction record for contemporary Canadian art was broken earlier this month in New York with Christie’s $3.6 million sale of a Jeff Wall photograph. This week, Canada’s top houses head into their spring sales hoping to break more records.
“Based on a True Story” in Oakville boasts the largest North American survey to date of Keren Cytter, the Tel Aviv–born artist known as one of today’s most intriguing video practitioners. Mariam Nader reviews, finding greatest hits and unexpected delights.
The history of indigenous people performing for colonial audiences inspires "Sovereign Acts,” a current Toronto group show. As Max Mosher writes, the show—featuring Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson and others—is both campy and contemplative.
Dil Hildebrand is one brave painter. In his new show “Back to the Drawing Board (Reprise),” he stares down the old adage that no one wants to look at a green painting, let alone buy one. There's not just one green painting here—there's a room of them.
