The two of us were born of the same streets, led by hand through the intersection of Bloor and Bathurst in Toronto, from the Black bookstores to the hair salon to the roti shop. This was a meeting ...

The theft happened September 4, 1972. It was Labour Day; the same day Canada’s hockey team won game two against the USSR in the Summit Series. One is remembered in volumes; the other, barely at all.

Imagine, a few months ago, entering the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: you are flanked by a Hellenistic Greek sculpture to the left and an ancient Egyptian statue to the right; a large ...

In the wake of Bill C-81, “an act to ensure a barrier free Canada,” and the Canada Council’s accessibility and equity research initiatives, the attention to deaf, disability and mad arts is growing.

Richard William Hill continues his explorations of 1980s and 1990s Indigenous art to outline 10 works that changed how we "imagine our place in the world." Note to the reader: I am using this monthly ...

It started in the archive. Two years ago, when artist Kent Monkman began working on “Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience,” opening tonight at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, his ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has an extensive collection of painter Edward Mitchell Bannister’s work, mostly oil paintings depicting pastoral life. Although Bannister was ...

Note to the reader: Given that Canadian Art serves general readerships as well as those specialized in art and design, the words “font” and “typeface” are used interchangeably in this article. For ...

Sometimes I don’t know into what world I have woken up. It is as if I went to sleep in a pre-COVID time and awoke to a new future. I scroll through my newsfeed and see abolition messages writ large ...

TikTok is a digital media space born of other digital territories: its artistic genealogy comes from Musical.ly, where people lip-synched to audio clips, and its inspiration emerged from popular ...

Few people know that the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto even exist. Housed in a small room in the basement of the Gerstein Crisis Centre in downtown Toronto, this archive aims to collect and ...