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Join our current resident, Cassie Suche, at the CAAF studio to see the drawings she has been working on this month. During her residency she has been developing a body of experimental, process-based ...
This selection of paintings from 1979 to 2019, all by Canadian Rae Johnson, represents some of the artist’s key figurative works over nearly 40 years. Originally slated to end April 18, the exhibition ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s a hot summer day in 1971, a week before the opening of Joyce Wieland’s exhibition “True Patriot Love,” the National Gallery of Canada’s first retrospective of a living female artist. Wieland and ...
Deirdre Lee is a poet, performer and maker of art, food, medicines and magic. Her work is intertwined with her complicated and sometimes confusing reality as a racialized, neurodivergent woman, and ...
The news came via social media on Saturday while I was at Awenda Provincial Park on Lake Huron, painting with a group of OCAD University students. The aspiring young artists had just held an informal ...
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 ...
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 ...