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Canadian Art's Rosie Prata talks with artists in Toronto and Vancouver whose works are now located in those cities' Trump Towers. How do they react to having their art on display in these buildings?

Much has been made of Trump’s taste, or lack thereof. Though he has existed in the public imagination for nearly four decades, evidence of his ( Read more... )

Montréal's Musée des beaux-arts has much to see apart from the temporary exhibitions like Focus : Perfection. To avoid become overly swamped, we concentrated on the Canadian gallery, its four levels filled with works--paintings, sculptures--from different eras in Québec and Canadian history ( Read more... )

CBC Arts features an essay by an anonymous author talking about the importance of improvised, do-it-yourself, not-quite legal public art spaces for the art scenes of cities across the world, and the threats that these centres face from (among others) the alt-right.

In the late fall, a friend anxiously explained to me how the online message board ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Sandro Contento looks at some of the people who flourished in the Honest Ed's-subsidized artist's neighbourhood of Mirvish Village, what they achieved and what they are now losing.

Gabor Mezei has been an artist on Markham St. for four decades. He marvels at making a go of it for so long and, at 83, takes nothing for granted. ( Read more... )

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The Globe and Mail carries a Canadian Press report describing how the Confederation Centre of the Arts gallery in Charlottetown has restored the identity of a woman artist of the 19th century.

For decades, her creations have been wrongly attributed to men - but after a two-year investigation of her work, the daughter of a former Prince Edward ( Read more... )

Robert Everett-Green's long article in The Globe and Mail, published this September past at the beginning of the run of Focus : Perfection at the Musée des beaux-arts, places the exhibition and Mapplethorpe in their proper contexts. Recommended.

The outward focus of today’s culture war is what Muslim women should be permitted to wear on their ( Read more... )

• 'Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith describes his writing projects for this year.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining exomoon formation.
• The LRB Blog worries about Trump's hold on the button.
• The NYRB Daily looks at Rex Tillerson, an oil company diplomat to autocrats.
• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw shares the rediscovered mid-19th century painting ( Read more... )

The Royal Ontario Museum's exhibition of Dale Chihuly's glasswork ended yesterday. Last Friday, I went to see it. I was impressed by the technical skill involved in these works, the larger assemblies of work were wonderfully evocative of alien forests. Individual pieces left me a bit cold: Yes, they were technically impressive, but what were they ( Read more... )