april 4, 2013
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have that thing only couples of long-standing, engaged in a common enterprise, seem to have. The thing of being able to easily finish each other’s sentences, anticipate and amplify the other’s next thought, to overlap observations and gently chide, josh or contradict an
april 3, 2013
In this age of fiscal restraint, one of the easiest targets for spending cuts is the arts. While our politicians do all the dirty work, voters are largely to blame because most of us don’t make too much fuss about it. Given the choice between a cultural centre or more hip replacements, it’s
April 3, 2013
the audain
april 3, 2013
“Every morning I wake up between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., have a cup of coffee, read the news and head to the studio,” says artist
april 1, 2013
There are only a few great critics holding forth in today’s waning critical climate who maintain an element of danger in their invocations. These voices of authority and interrogation bend and veer away from our understood rails of art appreciation into rogue states of wicked qualification, correction, dissent - even
april 1, 2013
No one’s going to call Shary Boyle relaxed. Intense? Yes. Driven? Unfailingly articulate? For sure. Nevertheless, it was a rather – or should that be relatively? – relaxed Boyle I encountered the other evening in the large, high-ceilinged, white cinder-block studio in Toronto’s Bloordale district
march 28, 2013
Imagine being paid to make art in a distillery – and no, this is not an unpublished William Faulkner story. Montreal artist Daniel Barrow, 41, is the Canadian recipient of this year’s Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence
"Merete Kristiansen and Kate Barron may be on the verge of revolutionizing the Canadian art world."
- anne watson, the vancouver observer
