Art, Music & Pop Culture

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

Pop culture is powerful. Our shared experiences can foster a sense of collective belonging, while just as quickly isolate and traumatize. Consider the divisive social and political issues exposed by some of 2022’s biggest cultural ... Read More »

January 11, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography

If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture

By Moshe Safdie

While still an adolescent living in Israel, Moshe Safdie once received a report card in which his teacher wrote: “Moshe is unable to control his spirits.” Now, in his 80s, Safdie still cannot be contained, ... Read More »

November 22, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator

By Rosalind M. Pepall

When Rosalind M. Pepall began her career as a curator more than 30 years ago, her job title had a very specific institutional meaning. Curating was a specialized profession requiring a graduate degree and was ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

Taken by the Muse: On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker

By Anne Wheeler

There’s a chatty intimacy to Taken by the Muse, a series of vignettes focusing on adventures Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler has embarked on in her life. Wheeler, whose critically acclaimed career includes the feature films ... Read More »

August 24, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

★ On Nostalgia

By David Berry

It’s not often I hear an author’s voice in my head while reading a book, but with On Nostalgia, I heard what I imagined to be David Berry’s roving documentary tones, bright and curious, not ... Read More »

August 13, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

★ Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By Amanda Leduc

What do fairy tales tell us about who we think is less than whole? What do happy endings tell us about who we believe really has worth? And what would these narratives look like if ... Read More »

February 10, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

By Amy Fung

In her new book, art critic Amy Fung does what a lot of BIPOC thinkers, especially Indigenous ones, ask us to do: deliberately situate ourselves in our narratives, clearly positioning ourselves vis-à-vis colonialism and the ... Read More »

May 27, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Criticism & Essays

Recasting History: How CBC Television Has Shaped Canada’s Past

By Monica MacDonald

If you are the sort of person who is delighted by the mere existence of a book about historical programming on the CBC, then you will likely find much to recommend in Monica MacDonald’s Recasting ... Read More »

April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

Peter Clapham Sheppard: His Life and Work

By Tom Smart

The image that comes to mind when thinking of early 20th century Canadian painting, particularly from Toronto, is likely the landscaped vistas created en plein air by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. But ... Read More »

October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Who Killed Tom Thomson?: The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Artists

By John Little

It’s the most enduring mystery in Canadian art: how did famed landscape painter Tom Thomson die? The past century has seen a flood of books, articles, and documentaries speculating – without reaching a definitive determination ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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