MOCA’s Spring Lineup

The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA Toronto) has recently announced its spring lineup of programming. The museum unveiled four new exhibitions by artists who are Canadian and/or based in Toronto – each showing work never seen in Canada. 

Final weeks of Her Flesh

Her Flesh builds on a question once posed by Canadian artist Mary Pratt, “If women are the muse for men … what is the muse for women?" Consider that centuries ago, a woman's singular role in art was limited to that of a muse. Women artists were not permitted to depict their own bodies or attend life-drawing classes at any European or North American art schools until the late 1800s.

As We Rise travels to Vancouver

25 years ago, Dr. Kenneth Montague—AGO Board Member, dentist and art collector—established the Wedge Collection, the largest privately owned collection in Canada committed to representing African diasporic culture and contemporary Black life. The Wedge Collection exists as a living archive of works by Black artists not only from Canada but from the Caribbean, the U.K., the U.S., South America and throughout Africa. Community, in the many definitions of the word, ties together these artists and over 400 works.

Locking eyes with Leonard

Documenting the lives of some of Canada’s most esteemed performers is second nature to acclaimed author, playwright and editor Michael Posner. An award-winning actor in his youth, his intimate knowledge of stagecraft and performance shines in his biographies of Anne Murray, Mordechai Richler and now, in a new three-volume oral history of Leonard Cohen. It is “authenticity” that distinguishes the good from the great artists, he says. Their honest conviction.”

Revisiting the Big Easy

In New Orleans, culture flourishes alongside signs of decay and history. A colourful, bustling metropolis shaped by African, French, Spanish and American influences, at every turn there’s a photograph waiting to be taken, live music to be heard, and cuisine to savour. There’s a costumed parade for seemingly all occasions, the most renowned happening during Mardi Gras.

ICYMI: A Miss Chief lens

On October 8, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveiled a brand-new major exhibition conceived by acclaimed Cree artist Kent Monkman. Being Legendary places 35 new paintings by Monkman alongside fossils, meteorites and other select pieces from the ROM’s collection in a grand re-telling of history – from an Indigenous perspective.     

beyond an assistant

In 2011, a young Master of Fine Arts candidate named Linda Martinello received a research scholarship to work as an assistant for a professional artist of her choosing. Deciding to offer her services to contemporary painter Denyse Thomasos would change her life forever. During that summer in Thomasos’s Lower East Side Manhattan studio, Martinello gained a mentor and profound source of artistic inspiration, observing a genius at work. 

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