Border Crossings Magazine

Caravaggio: The Desired Body Flares Like an Apparition

Meeka Walsh

  In 1984 Pantheon published a book by British writer and critic John Berger titled And our faces, my heart, brief as photos. It was a small personal book of poems, prose fragments, short essays, notations...

Wordlessly, Bookishly: Guy Maddin & Cliff Eyland

There is a solid tradition of diy collaboration in Winnipeg and now two of the city’s most accomplished artists, filmmaker Guy Maddin and mixed mediator Cliff Eyland, have combined talents to produce what they are...

The Horror, The Horror: Jillian Mcdonald

Jillian Mcdonald is a kind of horror culture sociologist studying the differences between zombies and vampires, the two most popular species of the Undead. “There is a sophisticated and aristocratic ideal about the vampire, whereas...

Still Truckin' After All These Years: Randall Anderson

Wisdom is figuring out later in life what we didn’t know we already knew. By this definition Montreal artist Randall Anderson has grown wise. As a young boy, his world was characterized by mobility. His...

Lost and Found: Bird on A Wire

Robert Enright

In 1972 Leonard Cohen was irresistible. Across Europe, after his concerts, women come to him backstage, hoping to take strange gain away. Some have kohl-lined, predatory eyes; you can almost hear the sound of their...

What Remains To Be Said: An Interview with Raymond Pettibon

Robert Enright

Raymond Pettibon, for all that he is an image maker, is also a man of the book. He reads them, thinks through forms of fragmented (and sometimes whole) narratives, and is constantly considering the way...

Mr. In-Between: Contemporary Stops Along the Modernist Highway: An Interview with Simon Hughes

Robert Enright

Some artists like answers; others like questions. Simon Hughes prefers the latter. He is among a generation of Winnipeg artists—the Royal Art Lodge, Karel Funk, Tim Gardner, Jon Pylypchuk, Sarah Anne Johnson, to name only...

Gary Michael Dault

Stephen Horne

The Rematerialization of the Idea: Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada

Daniel Baird

In a simple piece from 1968 entitled Opinion (Art as Idea as Idea), American artist Joseph Kosuth printed the dictionary definition of the word “opinion” in white on a black background and mounted it on...

M J Thompson

Terence Dick

Cliff Eyland

Lee Henderson

Jesi Khadivi

Julia Dault

Tara Marshall

Alison Gillmor

Amy Karlinsky

Richard Holden

Jeanne Randolph

John Luna

Dan Adler

Susan Andrews Grace

Stephen Horne

Dan Adler

Laura Trunkey