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BordernotesA Handle, on BuildingMeeka Walsh

Winter is interior, a strangely longed-for time of retreat and withdrawal. Shortened daylight and intense cold drive us in, and inward. We compress or distill...

BorderviewsLight Plain/Plane of Light

  When Vancouver-based artist Germaine Koh was short-listed to create a piece of public art for Central Park in downtown Winnipeg, she didn’t know what she...

BorderviewsObjects of Care, Objects of Dread

  Mia Feuer, who was born in Winnipeg and is now based in Washington, D.C., makes large objects that combine the personal and the political in...

BorderviewsFailing Successes

  In 2005, when he was living in Vancouver, Derek Dunlop became obsessed with the Internet images of Lynndie England, an American soldier on duty at...

BorderviewsThirteen Easy Pieces

  Landscape and the Canadian identity are a horse and carriage proposition; you can’t seem to have one without the other. A recent exhibition in the...

BordercolumnThe General with the Dragon Tattoo: Corolanius, directed by Ralph FiennesRobert Enright

Coriolanus is a play, like the late-night partying rampant in Hamlet's Denmark, that has been more honoured in the breach than in the observance. Its...

InterviewsWillem de Kooning: Women on the Themes of Painting - Conversations with Cecily Brown, April Gornik, Monica TapRobert Enright

  In 1953 at his opening at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, Willem de Kooning was approached by Jackson Pollock, who was in an...

InterviewsWillem De Kooning: Conversation with Cecily Brown

  CECILY BROWN: I was in art school at the Slade around 1989, and I distinctly remember looking at a catalogue of de Kooning’s work with...

InterviewsWillem de Kooning: Conversation with April Gornik

  APRIL GORNIK: I went to the show completely open to it. I was ready to be surprised, and I admired the incredible grace of the...

InterviewsWillem De Kooning: Conversation with Monica Tap

  MONICA TAP: My first encounter with de Kooning was my being very soundly admonished as an undergraduate for spouting off that he was a misogynist....

ArticlesRadical Cells: Absalon's Machines for LivingRodney LaTourelle

  In the Thomas Bernhard novel, Correction (Alfred A Knopf, 1979), the character Roithamer obsessively plans and builds a home for his beloved sister in the...

ArticlesTime's Banishment: Three Generations of PaintingGary Michael Dault

  It was an occasion of witnessing this stirring, deeply moving exhibition, rather than veiwing it. A vast, resonate display, rich and deep with detail, “Sole...

Art PagesMia Feuer

        Above images: Mia Feuer, fort mcmurray studies 2012, watercolour and ink on paper, 15 x 10" and 12 x 9". All images courtesy the artist and...

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