Articles

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  Lygia Pape

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  Shannon Bool

• Eyes Wide Open

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  Optimistic Hybridities

  Asking painters about painting is like following Alice down the rabbit hole into her particular Wonderland: you never know what you’re going to encounter there. Of course, Alice fell into her condition, while we might be more deliberate in our choice.

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  Lisa Yuskavage

  “It’s a constant theme for me: the struggle between the desire to be right and the desire to be wrong. I think it’s all just wanting to be true. And what is true and correct and right in art is often wrong in the world.”—Lisa Yuskavage

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  Online Interview with Chris Kraus

  Chris Kraus has written her seventh book, called ‘After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography’, which Semiotext(e) will publish this month. Readers can’t help but be engaged by subject and writer. It is an indispensable book.

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  Wim Delvoye

  In an essay on Wim Delvoye in “Wim Delvoye Introspective” (Wercatorfonds, 2012), Bart Verschaffel offers that you could, if you so choose, consider life and history according to the classic theatrical dichotomies of tragedy or comedy.

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  Picasso’s Guernica, Walter Benjamin, war and peace

  For Picasso, the bombing of the Basque city of Guernica in April 1937 marked a new terrifying industrial and anonymous warfare, a warfare of the modern period.

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  The Beautiful Dark

  Matthew Patton is half in love with uneaseful death. The Winnipeg composer and curator of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival’s recent CD/vinyl release from Constellation Records is an audial and musical journey into the art of darkness

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  Analoging the Digital

  Kyle Janzen and Chris Burke have removed all the vowels from their patronyms to come up with the name of their collaborative partnership

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  The Many Fictions of Self

  In a billboard on a wall outside Toronto’s Mercer Union in 2015, interdisciplinary Kahnawake-born artist Walter Scott installed a simple six-frame narrative

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  Vertigo Redux

  In Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, and arguably the greatest film ever made, John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson, played by James Stewart, visits his old friend, the shipbuilding magnate and wife-murderer-in-waiting, Gavin Elster, and they talk about San Franciso, the city in which they both live.

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