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A black-and-white comic book style illustration of two people facing one another, holding glasses of wine and awkwardly not speaking. The figure on the right wears a black beret and turtleneck.

Comics

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Life of an Artist

January 27, 2021 - by Chris Hampton

Walter Scott’s newest Wendy comic offers an inside look at the creative class

A black and white photo of a geometric metal teapot, which has a body shaped like a diamond.

Arts & Culture

The International Tempest Over the World’s Most Famous Teapot

January 19, 2021January 22, 2021 - by Rosalind M. Pepall

Inside the world of evaluating, and pursuing, rare art objects

Arts & Culture

How Creativity Changes as We Age

September 16, 2020February 12, 2021 - by Emily Urquhart

As Turner lay dying, he asked to see sunlight. Renoir demanded a pencil. For many artists, the final chapter is the most creative

A man posing seated in front of a painting, which depicts a scene of various people on a beachfront

November 2019 / Photography

One Photographer’s Artistic Encounters with the Selfie Generation

November 14, 2019November 26, 2019 - by Aaron Peck

Four decades into Jeff Wall’s career, the artist is still pushing the limits of what a photograph can be

red and black paint streaks on a yellow backdrop

Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom

Learning Sex Ed Through Art

December 5, 2018January 9, 2020 - by Anubha Momin

How Nunavut’s Timiga, Ikumajuq became the most exceptional sex-ed program in Canada

Pae White's Lucky Charms (2014/2017) is installed between levels two and three of the Remai Modern.

Arts & Culture / March 2018

Will Anybody Visit Saskatoon’s New $85 Million Museum?

February 21, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Daniel Viola

Inside the prairie city’s gamble to build a world-class art gallery

Farmer's installation for the Documenta (13) exhibition in 2012 featured more than 23,000 images culled from vintage Life magazines.

Arts & Culture / September 2017

How One Artist Is Redefining the Exhibition Space

February 1, 2018August 22, 2019 - by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

Geoffrey Farmer transforms rooms into new worlds for his installation projects

First Person

Why I Developed a Roll of Film I Found on the Curb

December 26, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Christine Estima

I tracked down the people in the photos. It did not go as planned

Arts & Culture

Using Art to Rethink the Legacy of Nazi Germany

October 27, 2017April 3, 2020 - by R.M. Vaughan

How Canadian artist Vera Frenkel transformed a space once used to hide Hitler’s stolen treasure

Photograph by The Canadian Press /Jeff McIntosh

Arts & Culture

Lessons From Calgary’s Public Art Scandal

August 29, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Gillian Turnbull

What the Bowfort Towers can teach us about urban identity-making