Canadian Art – Masthead
Jun 25, 2024 · On October 4, 2021, the Board of Directors announced the difficult decision to cease operations of Canadian Art after 37 years, due to its financial position and revenue loss directly resulting from the COVID pandemic. Read the complete statement from October 4, 2021. Board of Canadian Art Foundation. Lee Matheson, Co-Chair.
Current Issue – Canadian Art
Jun 14, 2021 · Frequencies. Available from March 15 to June 14, 2021. This issue came together during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when separation has become a routine, although not necessarily pleasurable, experience. Lockdowns in many parts of the country have meant attuning to different ways of engaging with art, as gallery visits ...
10 Indigenous Artworks that Changed How We Imagine …
Apr 28, 2016 · 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." Shelley Niro's The Rebel (1991) is a work that stands as "a timely reminder of the power Indigenous women could exercise," Richard Hill writes. by Richard William Hill.
Essays - Canadian Art
P.Mansaram (1934–2020): A Canadian Artist in, and of, the World. Born in India, Mansaram spent most of his life in Canada, where he defied the hyphenated ways that the art world categorizes diasporic artists. by Deepali Dewan. March 11, 2021.
Kent Monkman: History Painting for a Colonized Canada
Jan 26, 2017 · Art Museum at the University of Toronto, January 26 to March 4, 2017. Kent Monkman, The Scream, 2016. by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir. 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 first step was ...
Mistikôsiwak: Monkman at the Met – Canadian Art
Apr 29, 2020 · The day before the unveiling of mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), the Met published a text by Met curator Randall Griffey, titled “Kent Monkman Reverses Art History’s Colonial Gaze,” in which he states that Monkman’s pieces “highlight the Museum as both a byproduct and beneficiary of colonizing forces, and illuminate how encyclopedic art museums perpetuate settler perspectives of ...
Indigenous Art Is So Camp – Canadian Art
Nov 21, 2019 · International Indigenous symbolism and aesthetics were a thought-provoking theme throughout “Àbadakone.”. The Tribal Women Artists Cooperative (TWAC) installed a painting along the wall of one of the NGC’s sweeping corridors; it was layered with complex, beautiful symbolism from their homeland, India.
15 Canadian Sites Make International Art Destinations List
Jan 16, 2019 · A new book called Destination Art, published recently by Phaidon, has chosen 500 notable public artworks across the globe—with 15 such artworks being in Canada. Here is the list of the public artworks in Canada that made the cut: Janet Cardiff ’s Forest Walk (1991) at the Banff Centre. Julian Opie ’s Promenade (2012) at 4th Street ...
Take Back the Streets – Canadian Art
Oct 30, 2017 · For urban Indigenous youth, taking to the streets is an expression of liberation that allows them to bypass the struggle of integrating into the colonial art establishment. Street graffiti by Corey Bulpitt (Akos One) in Gastown, Vancouver, in March 2017. Photo: @vancouverscarpenter on Instagram. By foregrounding voices that are typically ...
What Makes a Canadian Artist? - Canadian Art
Jul 20, 2017 · What Makes a Canadian Artist? This ancient funerary stele, made of marble, serves as the touchstone for “Here,” an exhibition of contemporary Canadian Art at the Aga Khan Museum. Image copyright Aga Khan Museum. There’s a piece of white marble installed on the second floor of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto that might not attract attention ...