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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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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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In Praise of the Flâneur: Justin Wong

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

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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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Warbling

INTERVIEW — Robyn Graham clears space for quiet art

Materials

Materials

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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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Upcycling: Harford House

Carina Harford on the “luxury of immediacy”

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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?”

StudioSessions

Studio Sessions

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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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CLOISTRAL: Marija Tiurina

Illustrating the fascinating tension between the familiar and the fantastic

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Floyd Kuptana: Urban Hunter

Celebrating the life of an Indigenous Artist

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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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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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