I ARRIVED in Montreal to bad news from the museum. Not only would I not be allowed onto the roof to see the skylight, but I also wouldn’t have access to the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, where ...

I met Katherine Boyer when we were teenagers, singing together in choir at a public high school in Regina, two working-class kids co-existing among the ranks of the city’s upper middle-class teens.

The two of us were born of the same streets, led by hand through the intersection of Bloor and Bathurst in Toronto, from the Black bookstores to the hair salon to the roti shop. This was a meeting ...

Black Power and the Art Community In Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power, Susan Cahan writes about how art museums have historically exhibited a pattern when it comes to ...

In June 2016, while I was working as the associate director of adult programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), I was asked to interview Stephan Jost, the gallery’s director and CEO, live on ...

The day before the unveiling of mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), the Met published a text by Met curator Randall Griffey, titled “ Kent Monkman Reverses Art History’s Colonial Gaze, ” in which he ...

Note to the reader: I am using this monthly column to think out loud in public about questions and controversies arising from my current research for a book about contemporary Indigenous art from 1980 ...

Deirdre Lee is a poet, performer and maker of art, food, medicines and magic. Her work is intertwined with her complicated and sometimes confusing reality as a racialized, neurodivergent woman, and ...

Members of the Massey Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences in 1951. Seated from left: Montreal engineer Arthur Surveyor, committee chair and University of Toronto ...

Maya Wilson-Sanchez: Many of the archives we visited for this project have an interest in caring for the material past of those in the social network of the (mostly) white men we researched. Their ...

Bad taste is an accusation that has attended Johnson’s career since the very beginning. Paintings she contributed, as a graduating student, to an open-house exhibition at the Ontario College of Art in ...

It started in the archive. Two years ago, when artist Kent Monkman began working on “Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience,” opening tonight at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, his ...