Articles

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  Marie-Michelle Deschamps

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  Walker Evans: Starting From Scratch by Svetlana Alpers

  “In more ways than one, photography is closer today to literature than it is to the other graphic arts. The final moral is: let photography be ‘literary.’”

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  Nelson Henricks and Michael Morris

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  Kapwani Kiwanga

  Decolonization is not simply a matter of sharing power but of dismantling the hierarchical structures that inhibit a polyvocal society while paying symbolic lip service to it.

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  Francisco-Fernando Granados

  co-respond-dance- Version II reacted to the health crisis by reaching out towards the “other,” reinforcing communal bonds at a time when touch, sensuality and intimacy are critically constrained.

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  Barry Schwabsky’s PictureLibrary: Fine Focusing

  Danger lives in close proximity to joy.

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  The Occidental Hotel by John Bentley Mays

  And although it touches on many ideas and things, and is deeply pleasurable to read because of the masterful quality of Mays’s gifted language, it is finally and fundamentally a critique and satire of Western white supremacy and the attending wickedness and lunacy of that historical and current force.

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  Caroline Monnet

  Buildings matter, and can tell a story of either contextual purpose or haphazard malfeasance. Using the raw, off-cast building materials of flawed intent, Caroline Monnet’s works address both but also tell a story of positive responses and of renewed possibilities.

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  Sheila Butler

  Numerous and diverging logics abound but never settle, accounting for works that feel primeval and prescient all at once.

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  Belle Lettrists: Nicola Tyson, Maria Lassnig, Amy Sillman

  I have two very particular books of letters on my desk. Particular in that neither is the collected correspondence of one writer in touch with a number of recipients over time, nor gathered together to reflect the breadth of the recipients, nor the myriad points of connections the writer made in a lifetime, nor focused on an event of significance—a crisis lived through and reported on, personal or universal. More particular than that.

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  Ideas of North

  On March 27, 2021, Qaumajuq, the new Inuit art centre, opened to the public. The word means “it is bright, it is lit,” and the naming is perfect. The 40,000-square-foot building was designed by Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan, who is described by Dr Stephen Borys, the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s director and CEO, as “an architect who thinks like an artist.”

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  Status Upbeats

  For five of those years, he entered into a collaboration with Cliff Eyland, an artist, close friend and one-time academic colleague. Eyland responded with 1,600 visual interpretations of Toles’s status updates, and Winnipeg’s At Bay Press has published a tidy 100-page book offering a mere tease of their delightful collaboration.

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