Koffler Arts

Arcade

An ongoing inquiry into the art and ideas of our time.

The Naked Pool

At the intersection of the public and private, the clothed and unclothed, the swimming pool has long been a favoured motif among artists and writers. But as fall settles in, what about the months when it's closed? Who are the artists of the drained pool?
by Linda Besner /
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Here, There, and Everywhere: On Memory and Place

Here, There, and Everywhere: On Memory and Place

What happens when we stand in front of a memorial or any sort of commemorative endeavour far from the site where the trauma occurred?
by Shelley Hornstein /
“All Life Comes from Her”—A Gathering Place for Narratives at the Edges

“All Life Comes from Her”—A Gathering Place for Narratives at the Edges

The fourth Bonavista Biennale in Newfoundland was an exploration of meeting points, of the communal but sometimes parasitic energy that sparks when one place becomes home to another.
by Patrick Pittman /
The Incredible, Moveable, 3D Book

The Incredible, Moveable, 3D Book

From anatomical and astronomical texts to harlequinades and Buck Rogers—book collector Larry Rakow on how a 14th-century invention became a staple of childhood.
by Tatum Dooley /

“It is a blessing to turn a nightmare into a good dream”

Manuel Herz, the Basel-based architect behind a new synagogue on the site of the Babyn Yar massacre, challenges prevailing notions of memorialization in architecture.
by Chris Frey /

Thoughts for the Aftermath

Jacqueline Rose’s new collection of essays navigates our present chaos with help from those who thought their way through the calamities of the last century.
by Patrick Pittman /

A Seed Is a Memory

Cecelia Brooks on the collecting of Indigenous ancestral seeds as a form of memory keeping.
by Tatum Dooley /