Articles

The Pareidoliast

Winnipeg musician and painter Scott Cook is a classic autodidact. A high-school dropout, he began teaching himself guitar when he was 18, eventually studying in England for six months with King Crimson founder Robert Fripp before returning to Winnipeg.
House Work

The work of Sarah Anne Johnson, the Winnipeg-based photographer, videomaker and performance artist, can be viewed through the language of a Biblical narrative.
Lovely Leonora

With a head full of the Irish folk stories on which she was raised and her own adept young mind inclined to the metaphysical, to which was added the enchantment of a world filled with all the possibilities
Air and Running Water

In a book-form “conversation” between novelist Adam Thirwell and multimedia artist Philippe Parreno at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto in 2017, the novelist says to the artist, “I don’t want to talk about objects. I want to talk about spirits.”
Taking a Gander

Ryan Gander is a British artist, filmmaker, designer and consultant to landscape firms and property developers. He has written 38 books, the most recent being “Picasso and I”, an artist book that is a collaboration with the Remai Modern Art Gallery in Saskatoon
Now and Then

If Michael Snow were an animal, he’d be a cat. He has had at least nine lives: filmmaker, sculptor, painter, record producer, faux ethnomusicologist, and two kinds of jazz musician.
Painting by Numbers

“Loving Vincent” is set a year after the death of Vincent van Gogh in 1890 and uses as cast members and locations the people and places the artist painted during his lifetime.
The Weight of History

Richard Serra told us that he came to a place in his work where he didn’t want people to be simply looking at a single object; he wanted them to experience the work by going through it.
Sounding Poetry

If “Jean-Pierre Gauthier” were a playwright, he would be writing tragic comedies. The installations of this Montreal-based kinetic sculptor are so full of humour, pathos and poignancy they are impossible to ignore.
Robert Rauschenberg
“An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands”
Philip Guston

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