Visual Art | The Walrus

A celestial nebula composed of a latticework of green beads, with a line of yellow threaded throughout, and small circles outlined with brown and blue beads.

April 2020 / Visual Art

How One Artist Captures the Night Sky in Beads

April 3, 2020April 13, 2020 - by Pamela Young

The otherworldly beadwork of Margaret Nazon

Arts & Culture / Comics / June 2019 / Visual Art

In This Wildly Popular Comic, Toronto Is Beautiful and Falling Apart

June 4, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Sharon Nadeem

Inside Michael DeForge’s new collection

January/February 2019 / Visual Art

On Patrol With the Canadian Rangers

January 14, 2019February 21, 2020 - by Philip Cheung

This Northern military branch is often the first responder in the country’s most remote regions

A cultural centre located in Iqaluit, nunavut

Arts & Culture / Visual Art

The Future of Inuit Art

September 13, 2018July 17, 2019 - by Catherine Dean

A new cultural centre in Nunavut is shaping the next wave of printmaking in Cape Dorset

Sault Ste. Marie, from Fantastic Cities (2015)

July/August 2017 / Visual Art

The Line King

June 15, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Steve McDonald’s colouring books have conquered the world

Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010 Kinngait) The First Tourist 1992 Lithograph 57 x 71 cm All images © Dorset Fine Arts.

Visual Art

An Inuit Artist’s Unusual Route to International Fame

May 18, 2017December 13, 2019 - by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

Kananginak Pootoogook’s work is keenly perceptive of his world—and how that world is perceived by outsiders

March 2017 / Visual Art

The Ambassador of Art

February 23, 2017May 1, 2020 - by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

At the American embassy in Ottawa, Obama’s cultured emissaries say goodbye to a golden age

Visual Art

The Rise of Nunatsiavut Art

February 17, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Heather Igloliorte

After decades of being perceived as “inauthentic,” it’s time for Labrador Inuit artists to receive the recognition they deserve

Visual Art

The Alternative Realism of Kent Monkman

February 7, 2017May 21, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

A virtuoso paints Indigenous life into Canadian history

Visual Art

Matching a Face to a Voice

December 9, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Bruce Meyer

Portraits of Canada’s literary legends