Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...

At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign ...

Mimi Howard. Mimi Howard is a writer and critic based in New York whose work explores contemporary art and the legacies of ...

When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate ...

Decolonization involves destruction and upheaval, but in equal measures is a process of creation—a radical world-building that imparts not only a political but cultural and ecological heritage. This ...

In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape and gazes out at a house beside a mountain. A red bird hovers just off shore, ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though ...

And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837Upon discovering an illness, it is ...

On August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.” ...

Dawit L. Petros: I’ve always understood the need to balance the production or the study of visual cultural materials with textual and written materials. With the understanding that an object (like a ...

Shelly’s personae are disturbingly elaborate and just as self-contradictory, confusing, and multilayered as the reality we live in, largely because they often come from real-life experiences. They ...

The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever there’s a body around you see its faults. The question is, now, in an artworld and social ...