Jonathan Garfinkel explores a new exhibition that attempts the sticky, contradiction-laden, and perhaps impossible task of figuring what sex means in a Jewish context, from the Mishnah to Dr. Ruth and beyond.
Arcade speaks with Toronto artist Nancy Friedland on what drove her mid-career transition from conceptual photography to painting, and how the anticipation of grief lay at the heart of much of her work.
While trying to work on a book about illness on a residency near the former POW camp of Stalag-17B, Jonathan Garfinkel is drawn into friendship and dark contemplation with the Australian transdisciplinary artist Ian Strange
A conversation with Brazilian artist Giselle Beiguelman about her exhibition Botannica Tirannica—now showing at Koffler Arts—and understanding the colonial imagination.
An excerpt from a recent lecture at Koffler Arts by historian and artist Natalia Romik on the hiding places Jews in Poland and Ukraine created during the Holocaust.
Fresh off of winning a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Barbara Astman looks back at the materials and methods behind her two works included in Koffler Arts' recent group show DECADE.
Experimental filmmaker Midi Onodera talks with Arcade about her early adoption and explorations of new technologies, how art making in Toronto has changed, and what the glut of media images might be doing to us.
