Border Crossings Magazine

Edges of Resistance: The Language of Art in Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Spero

Meeka Walsh

Two books, two artists, two women: Louise Bourgeois Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 (MIT Press, 1998) and Codex Spero: Nancy Spero, Selected Writings and Interviews 1950–2008 (Roma Publications, Amsterdam,...

Cover Material: Ian August

Ian August has made a practice of painting on book covers. In his Winnipeg studio he has boxes of them found in the recycling room at the University of Manitoba. “It came about naturally from...

Crash Coursing: Michael Benjamin Brown

Michael Benjamin Brown describes his interests in art and life as eclectic. As a young skateboarder, he turned his fascination with flying into earning a pilot’s license when he was only 17. “The technology of...

Arcs Poetica: The Life and Death of Lightning: Act of God, directed by Jennifer Baichwal

Robert Enright

Jennifer Baichwal, the award-winning Canadian documentarian, likes looking in from on high and from a distance. All her films open this way: in The True Meaning of Pictures we are above the cushioned treetops of...

Manifold Singularity: An Interview with Roni Horn

Robert Enright

Roni Horn, the American artist who has adopted Iceland as her Muse, is a material poet. By that I mean she is able to coax out of the materials from which she makes her work...

Our Lady of the Zombies: The Art of Aurel Schmidt

Lee Henderson

Aurel Schmidt’s fecal faces are devilish. Each of her seductive uglies is made of an assortment of drug paraphernalia, post-coital litter, organic and synthetic waste, gutter vermin, flowing hair, decaying flowers, all of it and...

Boundary Breaker: Garry Neill Kennedy's Superstar Shadow Project

Peter Dykhuis

Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen of Syrian birth, was illegally detained on September 26, 2002, by United States officials on a return trip to his home in Ottawa while crossing a similar borderline through New...

What You See is What You Don't Get: The Art of James Carl

Terence Dick

Bankers Boxes The place was the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph, Ontario, the first of a four-part, four-gallery retrospective early in 2009 that would shine a light into the grey area known as “mid-career” for...

Randall Anderson

Robin Laurence

MJ Thompson

Charmaine Wheatley

Mary Reid

Julia Dault

Carol-Ann Ryan

Alexander B Kauffman

James D Campbell

Robin Laurence

Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader

Christopher Olson

The story, if you’re unfamiliar, goes like this: Young Dutch artist, son of preachers who hid Jews in their house during the Holocaust, father executed by the Nazis, studies at Rietveld Academy, hops a sailboat...

Lee Henderson

Stephen Horne

2666 by Robert Bolaño

Tracy Valcourt

The proverb, “Evil thoughts spring from the heart,” is presented in the preface to the epic novel, Don Quixote. In Roberto Bolaño’s ambitious novel 2666, we see the myriad embodiments of evil conjured and unleashed,...

Erin Hershberg

James D Campbell

The Guthrie Road, An Excerpt

Rosemary Sullivan

We went to visit my mother’s oldest sister Mary just once in all those early years. She and her husband, Nellis, had had a farm in Napanee. Nobody in the family approved of Nellis. He...