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A toddler screams while rolling around on the floor.

Was it unfeeling to use my child’s outbursts for an artistic pursuit?

Two Black men stand in a harvested field under a cloudy sky. They are dressed in football uniforms printed with colourful African textiles. They are standing apart and facing away from each other, attached by a set of chains on their backs.

September/October 2021

Artist Esmaa Mohamoud Examines How Pro Sports Profit from Black Athletes

July 9, 2021January 30, 2022 - by Connor Garel

Sports bring people together in living rooms, in crowded bars, and in the streets. Mohamoud seeks to expose the monstrous underbelly of all that winning

A collage of Cher and Nicholas Cage kissing in the film Moonstruck superimposed on top of an outline of the Manhattan skyline and a full moon.

July/August 2021

The Making of Moonstruck

June 28, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Ira Wells

The 1987 rom-com starring Cher and Nicolas Cage seemed doomed to fail. Director Norman Jewison turned it into a modern classic

An image of inside a Blockbuster Video store with two blue silhouette figures standing the the aisles looking for videos.

Arts & Culture

Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing

June 24, 2021June 9, 2022 - by Jason Guriel

Algorithms are integral to how we find and consume art. But old-fashioned browsing still has its benefits

Arts & Culture / March/April 2021

The Group of Seven Doesn’t Define Canadian Art

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 - by Tatum Dooley

After 100 years, is it time to retire the collective as Canada’s definitive painters?

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.

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

January 27, 2021September 13, 2022 - 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

Rear view of a man wearing white shirt and holding an umbrella and a briefcase, standing waist-deep in the water on a rainy day

Arts & Culture

Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better

November 19, 2020November 20, 2020 - by Steven Heighton

What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment

November/December 2020

William Ukoh Photographs a World of Leisure and Black Beauty

October 29, 2020January 30, 2022 - by Connor Garel

For the artist, rest and relaxation aren’t just aesthetics—they are where freedom is found

The Walrus Talks

The Walrus Talks at Home: Intelligence

October 14, 2020February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Minds, machines and the complexities of information

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Artist Esmaa Mohamoud Examines How Pro Sports Profit from Black Athletes

The Making of Moonstruck

Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing

The Group of Seven Doesn’t Define Canadian Art

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

The International Tempest Over the World’s Most Famous Teapot

Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better

William Ukoh Photographs a World of Leisure and Black Beauty

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