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Moon of the Turning Leaves is a finalist for the 2024 @goodreads Choice Awards in the Science Fiction category! If you think it's deserving of this accolade, please vote here: https://t.co/5T0o12tNrC

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A statement from the Canadian Art Foundation Board of Directors, October 4, 2021.

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Statement from Canadian Art magazine.

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Coming out of the reckless and creative vitality of Montreal in the 1990s, Gambletron has become known as a maverick of improvised soundscapes. From the Frequencies issue, Yaniya Lee writes about Gambletron’s conditions for chaotic harmony.

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As @jacquesmichelle embarks on a new position as @RemaiModern's New Head of Exhibitions and Collections/Chief Curator, she looks back at her achievements at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

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What could the struggle at Dancemakers in Toronto mean for live arts in Canada in 2021? Author and dance critic Emma Doran explores the implications in this essay.

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In our picks for Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver: @artist_JBennett and Zinnia Naqvi in public art; @vivekshraya at SUM; Erika DeFreitas at Art Gallery at Evergreen; and Will Kwan at @centrea.

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In conversation with Pemmican Milkshake (Kirsten Lindquist) and Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière (Lauren Jiles), editor-at-large Adrienne Huard reflects on the intersection of Indigenous sexual empowerment and visual storytelling.

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From our Frequencies issue, curator Megan MacLaurin speaks to ten artists who build worlds beyond the visible—through vibrotactile arts, sonic waves, pop culture and meme-making's social reverberations, and more.

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Three artists have won the New Generation Photography Award, an annual prize that recognizes lens-based Canadian artists aged 35 and under. The winners are Dustin Brons of Vancouver, Chris Donovan of Saint John and Dainesha Nugent-Palache of Brampton.

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Qaumajuq, the largest Inuit art museum in the world, opens later this week with an inaugural exhibition that is the most openly queer and inclusive Inuit art exhibition to date.

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Recent recognition of P.Mansaram’s practice is not because he finally caught up to the art world—it’s because we finally caught up with him, writes curator Deepali Dewan. Find out more in this essay.

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Lindsay Dawn Dobbin takes us through listening in reciprocity with the natural world, which invites us into the indescribable yet intimately heard.

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“Why has the success of Caribbean and Caribbean Canadian artists so often relied on exhibiting outside Canada?” Krystal Paraboo reflects on this and more in her review of Charles Campbell’s (@ccam) recent solo show at Wil Aballe Art Projects.

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Chrysanne Stathacos talks about her new installation for the 13th Gwangju Biennale, and psychic communications and connections amid pandemic loss that parallel the AIDS crisis and the world of that time.

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Managing editor Tess Edmonson (@tessedmonson) considers Rae Johnson's paintings—of hospital interiors, social scenes, archetypes and angels—in light of the ongoing pandemic and of the artist’s passing in 2020.

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Poet and performer Riel Bellow talks to artist and composer Kite (@kite_kite_), featured on the cover of Frequencies, about Indigenous dream-world data, temporal spirals and technologies to come.

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Frequencies, our spring 2021 issue, attunes to multisensory experiences at a time when lockdowns have become routine. Many of these artists focus on listening and ways of finding intimacy beyond imagery alone. Cover artist: Kite and Devin Ronneberg. https://t.co/tOijeVfC6j

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Amelia Wong-Mersereau on the importance of Chinatown and a Chinese Canadian art history in a time of gentrification and anti-Asian violence. She speaks to Karen Tam, curator of the Griffin Art Projects exhibition “Whose Chinatown?,” on now until May 2.

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@lysandranothing reports on how Indigenous art students across the country find themselves facing unique struggles with the shift away from classrooms due to the pandemic.

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