Being Legendary: Kent Monkman

Showing at the ROM, until Mar 19, 2023. Curated by Cree artist Kent Monkman, Being Legendary presents an installation of new original paintings by the artist alongside cultural belongings from collections at ROM. Interpreted by Monkman’s shape-shifting, time-travelling, gender-fluid alter ego, the legendary being Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, the exhibition depicts how deeply Indigenous knowledge is embedded […]

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Just Beyond: Denyse Thomasos

Showing at the AGO, until Feb 20, 2023. This career retrospective showcasing the work of Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos, brings together more than 70 paintings and works on paper, many rarely seen, to show how she challenged the limits of abstraction. The work is personal and political. Using pattern, scale and repetition, Thomasos depicts the vastness

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Illumination

Illumination is about light: finding the light, expressing the light, seeking our way into a brighter place following the past two years of rummaging around in the pandemic darkness. Many artists have been using art to tell their unique pandemic stories, but it is now time to move in a new direction – into the

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