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2024: The Year in Arts & Culture

December 30, 2024January 1, 2025 - by Various Contributors

Thoughtful essays and fascinating deep dives into everything from art forgeries to Joni Mitchell’s best work

Winston Churchill stares directly into the camera in a starkly black and white portrait

December 2024 / Society

The Strange Theft of a Priceless Churchill Portrait

September 13, 2024October 9, 2024 - by Brett Popplewell

The inside story of one of Canada’s most brazen, baffling, and mysterious art heists and how the police cracked it

A vermeet painting of a woman wearing pearls looking to her right.

Arts & Culture / September/October 2024

A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours

July 9, 2024July 22, 2024 - by Adnan R. Khan

New techniques reveal hidden details in the Dutch master’s paintings

Against a yellow backdrop, a maroon-coloured earth features turtles, muskrats, frogs, fish, birds, butterflies, trees, and men, women, and children surrounding Thunderbird. Primarily painted in blues, Thunderbird is enclosed in a dome made of wings.

Arts & Culture / June 2024

The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World

April 5, 2024June 7, 2024 - by Luc Rinaldi

Norval Morrisseau was one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced—and kept coming

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Arts & Culture

20 Years of The Walrus: Visual Essays

December 10, 2023December 10, 2023 - by Various Contributors

Fascinating photography that’s covered subjects both large and small

Black and white photograph of two women, surrounded by trees, standing in front of easels and painting. A shoreline and lake is visible in the distance.

Arts & Culture / September/October 2023

The Legacy of Saskatchewan’s Most Controversial—and Impactful—Artist Program

September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 - by Lee Henderson

The infamous Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops were ad hoc, low budget, and falling apart. They also reimagined the possibilities of art

Painting of a girl with long brown hair, facing away from the viewer, swimming in a lake. Trees and vegetation are reflected in the rippled surface of the water.

Arts & Culture / July/August 2023

In Vicki Smith’s Dreamlike Paintings, Women Court Peace in Pools and Lakes

August 30, 2023August 30, 2023 - by Connor Garel

She paints in total silence in an effort to achieve the same meditative state of her subjects

A comic of a small green hill with a Hollywood-style sign that says Garbage Hill

Arts & Culture / July/August 2022

The Surprising Appeal of Winnipeg’s Garbage Hill

June 21, 2022June 30, 2022 - by Jonathan Dyck

How I developed an appreciation for a green space with a past life as a municipal dump

A Black man embraces a Black woman who is sitting on a kitchen countertop. The woman is looking at the camera.

July/August 2021

The Way We Were

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 - by Jorian Charlton

Artist Jorian Charlton on the meaning of the Black family photo album and the essential nature of these archives

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A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours

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