Digital Distraction Is Bad for Creativity
What a silent evening with an author I admired taught me about solitude and writing well
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The Age of Creativity
My father is a remarkable painter. And he’s done some of his best work in his eighties
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Using Art to Rethink the Legacy of Nazi Germany
How Canadian artist Vera Frenkel transformed a space once used to hide Hitler’s stolen treasure
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How Schools Can Stop Killing Creativity
With the world in crisis, it’s more urgent than ever for students to develop original thinking
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Lessons From Calgary’s Public Art Scandal
What the Bowfort Towers can teach us about urban identity-making
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The Ambassador of Art
At the American embassy in Ottawa, Obama’s cultured emissaries say goodbye to a golden age
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The Alternative Realism of Kent Monkman
A virtuoso paints Indigenous life into Canadian history
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Confronting Our National Demons
The anti-monarchy, pro-First Nations movement gets a megaphone
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A Portrait of the Artist’s Studio
Where contemporary masterpieces are born
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