Remembering Geoffrey Hendricks
The artist, who died in May, was one of the first from the New York scene to establish themselves on Cape Breton Island in the 1960s.
Read MoreReading The Bruce Trail
This seminar-in-the-forest led by curator and writer Amish Morell will begin at the site of a 600 year-old Iroquois village that sits on the edge of the escarpment, where it overlooks the land of present-day Toronto.
Read MoreC Magazine Issue 131: Experimental Pedagogies
This issue arose out of several recent trends in art education. First, the emergence of alternative, tuition-free, DIY-style art schools, reading groups and skill-sharing workshops.
Read MoreBeyond the Island, Another Island
AMISH MORRELL, a Cape Breton-born writer and curator, chats with New York artistic duo ERIK MOSKOWITZ and AMANDA TRAGER about their memories of the Cape Breton of their youths, exploring…
Read MoreOutdoor School: Doris McCarthy
Outdoor School is an exhibition and series of activities that explore ways of attending to interstitial urban wild spaces and other natural environments around the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Read MoreC Magazine Issue 123: Wet
The concept of a WET issue emerged as a way to elicit both artwork and criticism that deviates from a tendency in contemporary art towards practices that are intellectually abstract, often highly frenetic, and detached from physical places and bodily experiences.
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C Magazine Issue 121: Walking
In this issue we look at the work of artists who use walking as their medium. Recently there have been numerous exhibitions, publications and research projects that deal with walking as an aesthetic practice.
Read MoreC Magazine Issue 118: Criticism
One of the most glaringly obvious problems in much of contemporary art criticism is its stark lack of social and geographic diversity. As Editor of a magazine that purports to be both national and international in its scope and readership, by far the greatest number of proposals I receive are from major urban centres and propose covering major public art galleries and/or artists with significant commercial representation.
Read MoreA Night Walk With Teenagers
On August 14th, 2003, shortly after 4 pm, a major power failure paralyzed the province of Ontario and eight U.S. states. In Toronto, for almost 24 hours, subways and streetcars shut down, and lights, elevators, cash registers, refrigerators, televisions, and air conditioners stopped working.
Read MoreC Magazine Issue 110: Food
The popular aphorism “you are what you eat” originates with French magistrate, gourmand and author of The Physiology of Taste (1825), Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.1 In his lengthy meditation on food and the senses, the original phrasing is “Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are,” one of 20 aphorisms, most of which are richly reflective of the social values of the time.
Read MoreC Magazine Issue 104: Contemporary Feminisms
It is with great excitement that I introduce this issue, which could not be timelier for many reasons. In recent years, there has been what seems like countless exhibitions dealing with feminist practices in contemporary art, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s touring show WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution...
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