From rave buses to Art Nest, Nathan Phillips Square is where Toronto has always gathered. Josh Greenblatt on sixty-five years of the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair and its founding idea that art is for everyone.
A new exhibition at Berlin’s Topography of Terror Foundation explores through diaries, propaganda messaging, and personal artifacts how much Germans knew about the Holocaust while it was happening.
A panel discussion on the uses and abuses of how urban dwellers think about their relationships with nature, patterns of gentrification in Toronto, and how people have been inhabiting spaces like the Don Valley much longer than people assume.
As Koffler Arts closes out 2025, General Director Matthew Jocelyn looks back on a year of exhibitions, experiments, and encounters—and makes the case for why cultural institutions should resist being easily summed up.
In conversation with Arcade, writer Shawn Micallef wonders whether Toronto really wants to be a city, and applies the lens of psychogeography to Tracey Snelling’s art.
As with the field of botany, the idea of the botanic garden in the West is deeply rooted in the history of European imperialism and extractivism. Led by London's iconic Kew, botanic gardens around the world are now attempting to untangle the legacies of empire.
As he approaches the first anniversary of his joining Koffler Arts as its new general director, Arcade spoke with Matthew Jocelyn about the tenuous position of Canadian arts organizations, and his vision for Koffler going forward.
Though the original names of many native plants in Canada were lost to colonialism, with the garden he has designed in dialogue with the exhibition Botannica Tirannica, Isaac Crosby aims to show the resilience of both Indigenous knowledge and the plants themselves.
As the dwindling number of spaces vital to Toronto's working artists continue to struggle or turn to rubble, Josh Greenblatt investigates the multi-fronted policy response it will take to enable artists to thrive as more than a civic afterthought.
Sometimes, it's worth taking a moment to look forward, at all the good things in our future. A selection of picks for the art worth looking forward to in 2024.
Despite the deliberate erasures of Soviet historiography, the site of the massacres at Babyn Yar reveals a story spanning several eras of Ukrainian history—though mostly by examining how that story was allowed to be told.
