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Diasporic connections
Toronto-based filmmaker Esery Mondesir’s new AGO exhibition delves into the rich complexity of the Haitian diaspora.
Dog Day Circus
Canadian artist Ally McIntyre looks back at her unconventional paintings, made from 2012 to 2019, in a career retrospective, on view now at the Saatchi Gallery in London, England.
ICYMI: Scrolls of reclamation
In case you missed it in June 2021, we spoke with Anishinaabe-Algonquin artist Philip Cote about reclaiming land through public art and ancestral wisdom.
The Women of Saint-Lazare
Picasso’s 1901 visits to Saint-Lazare Women’s Prison in Paris, France, inspired a number of his Blue Period masterworks. Find out more about his time at the notorious institution and why it was foundational to the development of his Blue Period.
Piecing together the Fragments
Suchitra Mattai and Wendy Nanan discuss the importance of belonging and giving voice to Indo-Caribbean histories in their respective practices and works featured in Fragments of Epic Memory. We delve into their virtual conservation, moderated by Dr. Ramabai Espinet from December 2021.
World Theatre
Mohawk contemporary artist Alan Michelson’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) critiques the colonial archive and celebrates Haudenosaunee ways of knowing.
Chase for more
Artist Jagdeep Raina explores the interplay of memory and migration of the Sikh diaspora in his travelling solo exhibition Chase at the Textile Museum of Canada through March 19, 2022.
(Re)framing device
Shelley Niro’s This Land is Mime Land (1992) challenges colonial identities with her signature wit and humour. We take a closer look at Niro’s series of twelve triptychs, recently acquired and now on view in the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art.