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BordernotesEdges of Resistance: The Language of Art in Louise Bourgeois and Nancy SperoMeeka 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:...

BorderviewsCover 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...

BorderviewsCrash 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...

ColumnArcs Poetica: The Life and Death of Lightning: Act of God, directed by Jennifer BaichwalRobert 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...

InterviewsManifold Singularity: An Interview with Roni HornRobert 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...

ArticlesOur Lady of the Zombies: The Art of Aurel SchmidtLee 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,...

ArticlesBoundary Breaker: Garry Neill Kennedy's Superstar Shadow ProjectPeter 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...

ArticlesWhat You See is What You Don't Get: The Art of James CarlTerence 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...

CrossoversHere is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan AderChristopher 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...

Crossovers2666 by Robert BolañoTracy 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,...

MemoirThe Guthrie Road, An ExcerptRosemary 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...

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