The drawings featured, like the show’s curation, are exquisite and precise, and ask the viewer to reconsider how they understand Pop and its contemporary applications.
Author
Melissa L. Mednicov
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Her intention as an artist was to inhabit a space outside of the snobbery of the traditional art space.
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The experience of the performers on screen and viewers in the museum seems to dovetail.
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"...if the museum is the repository for all society values, how is the prison the repository for all society seeks to disown?”
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Jamal Cyrus and Jamire Williams unpack the possibilities, meanings, and connections of music’s becoming and its contemporary presence.
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The heroines that populate Choi’s work at CAMH are tough, and joy is hard-won in the Cosmic Womb.
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As the show’s title suggests, the curatorial impetus of the show is a renewed and revised consideration of the landscape, and an assertion of a female presence in that landscape.
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The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.
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The show is at its best in inviting the viewer to consider what Modernisms have been left out, avoided, or possibly forgotten.
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'The X Files' and its tagline “I want to believe” seem pertinent here.