Border Crossings Magazine

A Pale Nimbus of Melancholy

Meeka Walsh

My father’s death preceded my mother’s by 20 months. When my mother died, I was left to empty and close their house. I had visited them often in the house in which I’d grown up,...

Echoes of Familiarity: Derek Sullivan

Derek Sullivan’s Amnesia, his version of Brancusi’s Endless Column, embodies in its name the Toronto-based artist’s relationship to contemporary art history. It is not about forgetting but about a nuanced procedure of distancing. “Work gets...

Giving Collaboration a Good Name: Micah Lexier

Artists know things about themselves, and as they work they get to know those things better. Toronto-based artist, Micah Lexier has been especially attentive to two things in his practice: the operation of chance and...

Meta Meta-Movie: "For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism" directed by Gerald Perry

Robert Enright

“The new Disney cartoon ‘Bambi’ is interesting because it’s the first one that’s been entirely unpleasant,” is the unforgettable opening line of Manny Farber’s film review written in June of 1942. It’s the kind of...

Dan Graham: Mirror Complexities

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

“I like to get into new areas,” Dan Graham says in the following interview, “and I like them to be in a borderline situation, rather than definitively one thing.” For over 50 years, Graham has...

(Subject to Change): Lawrence Weiner and the Contingencies of Language

Robert Enright

Two days before his exhibition “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CUL-DE-SAC” opened in March 2009, at the Power Plant in Toronto, Lawrence Weiner was supposed to give a lecture on his art and life to...

AD Coleman

EC Woodley

Myrna Kostash

Segue: In Search of Gerald Ferguson

Lawrence Weiner

Julia Dault

"Anna Torma, Istvan Zsako, Balint Zsako"

Jesi Khadivi

“Anna Torma, Istvan Zsako, Balint Zsako” was exhibited at the Wilde Gallery in Berlin from June 20 to July 19, 2009. Jesi Khadivi is a writer and curator living in Berlin where she co-directs the project...

James D Campbell

Terence Dick

Bill Clarke

Josee Drouin-Brisebois

Contemporary Iranian Art

Moti Shojania

“Iran Inside Out: Influences of Homeland and Diaspora on the Artistic Language of 56 Contemporary Iranian Artists,” curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath was exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York from...

Alexander B.D. Kauffman

Ben Portis

Meredith Dault

Michael Harris

"Noise Ghost"

Terence Dick

“Noise Ghost,” curated by Nancy Campbell, featuring work by Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle as well as a film by Marcia Connolly, was exhibited at the Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, from May 28 to...

Alison Gillmor

Ingrid Koenig