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 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 ...

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 ...

At Canada's four largest art museums, the top leadership is all white—and the majority of their boards and senior leadership is too. What does this say about the possibilities for change in a moment ...

With the support of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, academic and writer Billy-Ray Belcourt completed a series of articles for Canadian Art over the last year, in collaboration with our ...

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 ...

Many events this year—such as the expulsion of Russian diplomats in the West and the intense international attention on the Korean peninsula—have suggested the return of a Cold War mentality in Canada ...

In 1911, thousands of individuals in Edmonton generated a petition stating that African and Afro-Indigenous migrants from the southern US states were not welcome in Canada. Later that year, the ...

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 ...

I am writing this to honour the life and art of James Luna. Because, like many very good artists, his life and art were often impossible to untangle, and because he was not only an inspiration for my ...

Images make and spread the worldviews and cultural myths that often become reality. By remixing material from the visual culture of magazines, archives, science, literature and autobiographical ...

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.