Border Crossings Magazine

Comity of Errors

Meeka Walsh

I look out through the windows of my study and the trees are standing as they have for decades. Nuthatches continue their upside-down transit on the big elm, more right side up than we are....

Rental Properties: Sky Glabush

London, Ontario, artist Sky Glabush has been interested in architecture for a number of years, and in "Renting," his most recent exhibition at MKG127, Michael Klein’s Toronto gallery, he built new ideas around the notion...

Rankin File: Matthew Rankin

When Matthew Rankin was studying film in Montreal at the Institut national de l’image et du son in 2004, he couldn’t get the city where he was born and raised out of his mind... “I’ve always...

Black House, Brilliant Film: Forough Farrokhzad's The House is Black

Robert Enright

Forough Farrokhzad, the Iranian poet who died in a car accident in 1967 at the age of 32, was passionately committed to beauty and truth, a pairing John Keats would understand. In her case, beauty...

Every Frame A Photograph: Shirin Neshat in Conversation

Introduction by Robert Enright, Interview by Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh

In an early video installation called Soliloquy, 1999, Shirin Neshat, the Iranian-born filmmaker and photographer who has been living in the United States since 1975, casts herself as two women who use architecture as a...

A Question of Scale: Renegotiating Territories of Desire

Eduardo Aquino

Comparing my first considerations about art during the ’70s with those I hold today, I sometimes wonder how radically different my thoughts about the artistic process were. What helped me start to understand how artistic...

Double Doubting: Carla Zaccagnini's Art of Uncanny Deception

Earl Miller

On the way to view Carla Zaccagnini’s exhibition, “no. it is opposition.,” I pass block after block of suburban housing developments punctuated by badly aging late-modernist high-rises whose peeling paint adds at least some character...

Ricardo Basbaum, the NBP object and Four Verbs

Renato Rodrigues da Silva

In 2007, Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum designed an installation for Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, that addressed the architecture of the building in which it was located. Besides being site-specifically placed at the entrance of...

Airplanes, Figure-Skaters, Football Players and High-Heeled Shoes: Oviloo Tunnillie and the Tradition of the New

Robin Laurence

  Based in Cape Dorset, with recent stints in Toronto and Ottawa, Oviloo Tunnillie was born in a hunting camp and raised within traditional Inuit culture on southern Baffin Island. The practice of made-for-the-market stone carving,...

Little Big Mag: Radical Magazines and Architectural Criticism

Adele Weder

For all the myriad look-backs at the music, literature, art and cinema of the 1960s counterculture, surprisingly little has been written about the period’s architecture. One major reason is that as an art form constrained...

Blind Spot

Christine Redfern and Caro Caron

Christine Redfern and Caro Caron adopt the format of the graphic novel to give a new perspective on the life and death of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. Buy Issue 109 to see more pages from the...

James D Campbell

Susan Emerling

EC Woodley

Alex Kauffman

Pete Smith

Charmaine Wheatley

William V Ganis

"Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer"

Petra Halkes

“Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer,” an all-Canadian contemporary exhibition at the National Gallery in Ottawa, rides a global wave of museum shows and art festivals that have variously been called participatory, interactive,...

Gary Pearson

Petra Halkes

Dennis Cooley

Katie Brennan

Elizabeth Peyton

Julia Dault

The criticism surrounding American painter Elizabeth Petyon is sharply divided, with camps of derisive detractors at one extreme and ardent advocates on the other. The critics relegate her to the status of chronicler of the...

"Art Metropole: The Top 100"

Bill Clarke

In 1974, the artists collective General Idea established Art Metropole as a business venture and an archive for artists’ books, videos, multiples, photographs and other products stemming from what they called “the ephemeral flood.” AA...

Sky Glabush

David Garneau