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Art is True North

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Hubs & Huddles column of Cannopy Magazine, which focuses on multi-purpose performance centres
Ensemble column, which highlights classical artists and ensen, which highlights classical artists and ensembles
Ellington column, which features jazz vocalists and instrumentalists
Studio Sessions column, which focuses on in-depth artist profiles — particularly visual artists in their creative spaces
Materials column, which focuses on artists working across various creative media; Profiling Various Creative Media
Spaces column, which highlights galleries anSpaces column, which highlights galleries and exhibit venuesd exhibit venues
Fourth Wall column, which focuses on the global theatre industry
 In Motion column, which focuses on the global dance industry
In Focus column, which highlights the global film industry
Alt.itude column, which focuses on global alternative music
Homegrown column, which highlights Canadian alternative music
Arts & Letters column, which focuses on essays, opinions, and ideas related to the arts
Spaces

Spaces

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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.

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In Praise of the Flâneur: Justin Wong

The prolific street photographer reveals perspectives on Toronto, Tokyo, and time

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Elsewhere

Anishare and HUM Microgallery are two exhibition platforms closing the gap between space and spectator

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A MOCA Retrospective

INTERVIEW — As a trio of fall exhibits wrap up, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas reflects on the powers of hybridity

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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

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Warbling

INTERVIEW — Robyn Graham clears space for quiet art

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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

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A Walk With Amal

Meet “Little” Amal, the 3.5 metre puppet and beating heart of The Walk.

Materials

Materials

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Why It’s Made: Locke & King

PROFILE ─ How a watch brand from Hamilton redefines luxury through local pride, craftsmanship, and cultural geography

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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?”

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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?”

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FLOWERS: Rebecca Louise Law

How floral sculptures open the door to the “third place”

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TEA: Hiba Schahbaz

INTERVIEW — Meet the Pakistani-American painter infusing her female figures with a unique stain: black tea

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INK: Art or Artifice?

Six tattoo artists across six cities reflect on their work as an artistic practice

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Upcycling: Harford House

Carina Harford on the “luxury of immediacy”

StudioSessions

Studio Sessions

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Naledi Tshegofatso Modupi

INTERVIEW ─ Where heritage meets modernity: vibrant portraits that refuse erasure and celebrate sisterhood

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CLOISTRAL: Marija Tiurina

Illustrating the fascinating tension between the familiar and the fantastic

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Iryna Maksymova

The Ukrainian artist contrasting the hyper-masculine imagery of the war with harmonious female figures

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Floyd Kuptana: Urban Hunter

Celebrating the life of an Indigenous Artist

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Toe Fish

INTERVIEW ─ On ​​the struggle to create in a city that can’t afford its artists

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Facetime: Kachelle Knowles

INTERVIEW — “Living in a nation that relies on tourism has convinced people that looking ‘less Black’ is more tolerable.”

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Bree Stallings

Artist; Community Leader

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Victoria Kagalovska

Before the Invasion

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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.

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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

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Anna Zvyagintseva

"How can I even make art now?"

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Colour Me Senseless: Helen Beard

INTERVIEW ─ In an aesthetic ecosystem that favours monotone greys, this UK artist is bringing sexy back with bold colours

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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”

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Quinn Rockliff

Drawing strength and self-hood through nude self-portraiture in an image-obsessed era

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