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C A N N O P Y

Art is True North

Visual Arts

STUDIO SESSIONS

STUDIO SESSIONS

STUDIO SESSIONS

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Facetime: Kachelle Knowles

INTERVIEW — “Living in a nation that relies on tourism has convinced people that looking ‘less Black’ is more tolerable.”

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Is the studio a public place?

William Kentridge, the eminent South African painter, answers

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Bree Stallings

Artist; Community Leader

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Bruno Walpoth

My works are more a portrait of myself than the model

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Victoria Kagalovska

Before the Invasion

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Julian Montague’s Top 10 Books on Design

Welcome to our inter-issue series inviting artists to curate top-ten lists

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Kristy Gordon

Toronto vs. New York: From a Painter's Perspective

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Bernadett Timko

Oil, Wood, and Linens by the Countryside

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Is the studio a public place?

INTERVIEW — William Kentridge, the eminent South African painter and star of Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, weighs in

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Phantom Details: Agata Wierzbicka

“If you want to create and you have such a strenuous need, it won't matter to you if you have a large or small studio”

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Anna Zvyagintseva

"How can I even make art now?"

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Kezna Dalz

Botticelli meets Black Girl Joy

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Tony Taylor

Toronto artist with a unique take on portraiture

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Delali Cofie

Towards a new visual perspective on the global African diaspora

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Ilene Sova

A Toronto Artist Traces Family and Memory in Latest Exhibit

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Lan Florence Yee

Destabilising Chinatown Narratives with Text and Embroidery

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FACETIME: Kachelle Knowles

NASSAU | “Living in a nation that relies on tourism has convinced people that looking ‘less Black’ is more tolerable.”

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Cloistral #2: Iryna Maksymova

The Ukrainian artist contrasting the hyper-masculine imagery of the war with harmonious female figures

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Quinn Rockliff

Self-Portraiture and Healing

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Floyd Kuptana-Urban Hunter

Celebrating the life of an Indigenous Artist

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Collins Obijiaku

An emerging portraitist in search of new postures and perspectives on the African continent

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Norris Yim: Nameless

Hiding in plain (and colourful) sight

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Oksana Drachkovska

From Bunny Rabbits to Bomb Shelters, an Illustrator Turns Activist

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Zaria Forman

Painting the Climate Crisis into Each Precious Detail

SPACES

SPACES

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In Praise of the Flâneur: Justin Wong

The prolific street photographer reveals perspectives on Toronto, Tokyo, and time

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A MOCA Retrospective: In Conversation with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

These artists are spotlighting what it means to challenge the current cultural moment

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Hella Feminist

The Oakland Museum of California Delivers a Defiant Feminist Narrative

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Cynthia Noble

Executive Director of Art ontheMart

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Kate Lorenz

Executive Director of Hyde Park Art Center

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Kent Monkman At The ROM

How the celebrated artist appropriates Western styles of portraiture for new perspectives on Indigenous identity

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Oseredok

How the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre has been preserving the country’s collective memory since 1944

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

How can something as active as dance be contained in a still?

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Welcome to the Museum of Bad Art

Getting rejected by this gallery just might be a good thing

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David Korins

IVG Creative Director

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SOMArts: Maria Jenson

Meet the Creative and Executive Director of San Francisco's SOMArts

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A Close-Up On Costumes

Enter the Showstoppers! exhibit, and meet the costumiers of New York City

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A MOCA Retrospective

INTERVIEW — As a trio of fall exhibits wrap up, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas reflects on the powers of hybridity

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Transgressions: A Ceramics Exhibit

On the Border Between Artistic Bravery and Bravado

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Hayao Miyazaki

Designing the Hayao Miyazaki exhibit at The Academy Museum.

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Climate Activists vs. A Gallery Near You

“If you do something that can get ignored, it gets ignored”

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Monetta White and the MoAD

Our artists and institutions are expected to stand up and speak out towards injustice."

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BUMP Festival 2022

How a Mural Festival is Transforming Calgary's Concrete Jungle

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Gray Area Foundation: Barry Threw

"Art history is also a history of technology development."

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Gordon Shadrach

An exploration of the semiotics of clothing, gaze, and black expression.

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Miriam Cahn

Swiss artist makes her North American debut at Toronto's Power Plant

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Between Pheasants Contemporary

Fowl play is encouraged in this unique gallery experience

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Xiaoyu Weng at the AGO

A Fresh Perspective for Toronto'sTightly Knit Art Community

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Warbling

INTERVIEW — Robyn Graham clears space for quiet art

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Angela Davis: Seize the Time

An Exhibit Fit for a Larger-Than-Life Activist

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Boulevard Arts: Elizabeth L. Reede

"There's a little bit of something for everyone."

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Street Wise Arts

When Art Goes Up, Walls Come Down

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Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp

Welcome to the “smallest museum in the world” at The Forestay Museum of Art

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A MAMbo Restrospective

How an innovative concept traded curatorial neutrality for a cohesive and socially responsible exhibit

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Greater Toronto Art 2021

MoCA's take on contemporary art

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Soul of Ukraine: Immersive Shevchenko

How Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompted Valeriy Kostyuk to take action through art

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Ralph Remington

Meet the Cultural Director of the San Francisco Arts Commision

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In One Ear, and Out the Other

Separating tall tales from truth in the case of van Gogh’s ill-fated ear

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Michelle Mansour

Executive Director of Root Division

IN FOCUS

IN FOCUS

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Profile: Anora

Contextualizing Sean Baker’s latest film within cinema’s history of sex-positive self-actualizing female leads

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Pablo Larraín’s "Maria"

“Maria follows in the footpath of its thematic predecessors─but backwards, in heels, and with great music”

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Meet the Producers: Alice, Darling

“We wanted to show that things don’t have to be physical for it to be bad enough to leave”

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The Last of Us: Natasha Mumba

“Everybody’s working from a place of desperation”

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Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

INTERVIEW — A complicated portrait of William Kentridge plays out in this 9-part series presented by MUBI

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Chet Tilokani

“My role also has a caveat of staying out of the way of the story as much as possible.”

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In Focus: Xavier Dolan

The celebrated Canadian film director makes his TV debut with The Night Logan Woke Up

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Wayne Burns’s Top 10 Canadian Films

INTERVIEW — With the recent releases of fastLOVE and Longing, the Canadian actor looks back on the films that helped shape his appetite for cinema

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ON THE SET: Women Talking

Actor Sheila McCarthy on the Oscar-nominated film’s work culture

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The Flying Sailor

“Imagine the story of the sailor’s flight as a subjective, visceral, slow-motion ballet”

MATERIALS

MATERIALS

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TEA: Hiba Schahbaz

INTERVIEW — Meet the Pakistani-American painter infusing her female figures with a unique stain: black tea

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Maya Hughes

Pottery as a Mix of Clay, Monotony, and Spontaneity.

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FLOWERS: Rebecca Louise Law

How floral sculptures open the door to the “third place”

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Upcycling: Harford House

Carina Harford on the “luxury of immediacy”

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TEXTILES: Laura Rokas

How can galleries make more space for less conventional media?

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COLLAGE: Hanoch Piven

“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”

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BODY: Cassils

INTERVIEW — “What better way to push for trans presence and historical archives than to burn images of trans people into the eyes of cis beholders?”

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CERAMICS: Raluca Buzura

From kindling to kiln, how ceramics become wearable art installations

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