INTERVIEW — Balancing art, livelihood, and integrity in an age of endless content
Alma Singer’s Rules for Living
INTERVIEW — With humour, colour, and a childlike scrawl, Alma Singer reclaims vulgarity as a tool for survival and truth-telling in the gallery.
Facetime: Kachelle Knowles
INTERVIEW — “Living in a nation that relies on tourism has convinced people that looking ‘less Black’ is more tolerable.”
Iryna Maksymova
The Ukrainian artist contrasting the hyper-masculine imagery of the war with harmonious female figures
Quinn Rockliff
Drawing strength and self-hood through nude self-portraiture in an image-obsessed era
Naledi Tshegofatso Modupi
INTERVIEW ─ Where heritage meets modernity: vibrant portraits that refuse erasure and celebrate sisterhood
Colour Me Senseless: Helen Beard
INTERVIEW ─ In an aesthetic ecosystem that favours monotone greys, this UK artist is bringing sexy back with bold colours
Is the studio a public place?
INTERVIEW — William Kentridge, the eminent South African painter and star of Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, weighs in
Bree Stallings
Artist; Community Leader
Floyd Kuptana: Urban Hunter
Celebrating the life of an Indigenous Artist
Toe Fish
INTERVIEW ─ On the struggle to create in a city that can’t afford its artists
CLOISTRAL: Marija Tiurina
Illustrating the fascinating tension between the familiar and the fantastic
Phantom Details: Agata Wierzbicka
“If you want to create and you have such a strenuous need, it won't matter to you if you have a large or small studio”
Anna Zvyagintseva
"How can I even make art now?"
Victoria Kagalovska
Before the Invasion
SPACES
SPACES
Floyd Kuptana at Gallery Arcturus
INTERVIEW — A tribute to the late Inuit sculptor whose vivid, haunting works continue to challenge how Canada remembers its artists.
The Home Universe: What Makes the Object
RETROSPECTIVE ─ For Milan Design Week 2025, Hermès returned to La Pelota with its new scenography by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry
Warbling
INTERVIEW — Robyn Graham clears space for quiet art
Elsewhere
Anishare and HUM Microgallery are two exhibition platforms closing the gap between space and spectator
In Praise of the Flâneur: Justin Wong
The prolific street photographer reveals perspectives on Toronto, Tokyo, and time
A Walk With Amal
Meet “Little” Amal, the 3.5 metre puppet and beating heart of The Walk.
MOCA Spring 2025
As Toronto’s Sterling Road evolves into a vibrant creative hub, its resident museum-cum-gallery space stays ahead of the curve with innovative exhibits
A MOCA Retrospective
INTERVIEW — As a trio of fall exhibits wrap up, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas reflects on the powers of hybridity
IN FOCUS
IN FOCUS
The Mastermind
INTERVIEW — Kelly Reichardt’s ’70s crime drama trades heist-movie thrills for the quiet unraveling of a man adrift
Showing is Telling: Myth of Man
INTERVIEW ─ Where other filmmakers worry you may take something away from their work that they did not intend, the Winans’ are asking you to do so.
Wayne Burns’s Top 10 Canadian Films
INTERVIEW — With the recent releases of fastLOVE and Longing, the Canadian actor looks back on the films that helped shape his appetite for cinema
On Set: Women Talking
Actor Sheila McCarthy on the Oscar-nominated film’s work culture
A New Day-Lewis
INTERVIEW — In Anemone, Ronan Day-Lewis redefines cinematic inheritance, merging generational artistry with a haunting exploration of male intimacy
Profile: Anora
Contextualizing Sean Baker’s latest film within cinema’s history of sex-positive self-actualizing female leads
Pablo Larraín’s "Maria"
“Maria follows in the footpath of its thematic predecessors─but backwards, in heels, and with great music”
4CO Films
Actor Clint Butler steps behind the camera for socially responsible storytelling
Now on MUBI: Grand Tour
PROFILE ─ Miguel Gomes’s latest film is a sprawling, messy, and dreamy odyssey that isn’t afraid to throw a few curveballs.
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot
INTERVIEW — A complicated portrait of William Kentridge plays out in this 9-part series presented by MUBI
Chet Tilokani
“My role also has a caveat of staying out of the way of the story as much as possible.”
MATERIALS
MATERIALS
Why It’s Made: Locke & King
PROFILE ─ How a watch brand from Hamilton redefines luxury through local pride, craftsmanship, and cultural geography
Upcycling: Harford House
Carina Harford on the “luxury of immediacy”
INK: Art or Artifice?
Six tattoo artists across six cities reflect on their work as an artistic practice
Silly Ceramics and Calaca’s Creatures
“I rarely need to explain myself: this is a blue elephant, he wears a cylinder and smokes a pipe ─ what is unclear here?”
BODY: Cassils
INTERVIEW — “What better way to push for trans presence and historical archives than to burn images of trans people into the eyes of cis beholders?”
TEA: Hiba Schahbaz
INTERVIEW — Meet the Pakistani-American painter infusing her female figures with a unique stain: black tea
FLOWERS: Rebecca Louise Law
How floral sculptures open the door to the “third place”
