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Arts & Culture

In Defence of Low Culture

March 13, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Elaine Lui

Adapted from remarks delivered on stage at The Walrus Talks Creativity

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Old photograph of a man on the sidewalk holding his briefcase and hat
Feature / October 2014

The Secret Life of Max Stern

October 15, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Sara Angel

The Nazis stole his family’s paintings. Now, twenty years after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution

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Image courtesy of Jon Rafman/Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
October 2014 / Visual Art

Down the Rabbit Hole

October 1, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Chris Hampton

In his circus of a studio, Jon Rafman makes the virtual world physical

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Artwork by John Hartman
September 2014 / Visual Art

The Map-Maker

September 1, 2014April 13, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

John Hartman’s Georgian Bay

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A body in a costume in front of a black background
May 2014 / Visual Art

Historic Drag

April 22, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Sarah Milroy

Kent Monkman’s new show redresses colonial art

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Illustration by Ben Clarkson
January/February 2013 / Visual Art

The People’s Art

December 10, 2012April 13, 2020 - by Sara Angel

The photographer who wins the prestigious Grange Prize is chosen online by the public. Is this a gimmick, or the future of art in the digital age?

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Painting by Jack Chambers
January/February 2012 / Visual Art

Unfinished Business

January 12, 2012September 16, 2019 - by Sara Angel

Jack Chambers died of leukemia in 1978, leaving behind an incomplete painting he had worked on for over a decade. The mystery of his masterpiece, Lunch

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Photo by Steve Payne, courtesy of the Power Plant Gallery
Feature / March 2011

Riffing

March 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Jazz inspired Michael Snow, the most influential Canadian artist of all time, to explore the unexplored

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Feature / July/August 2010

Big Game Hunter

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Chris Jones

Battered by controversy, the director of the National Gallery of Canada goes art shopping in Holland

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June 2010 / Visual Art

Letters and Words (2010)

June 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Lee Henderson

A new artwork commissioned for our pages

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