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  • All images courtesy the Contemporary Zoological Conservatory, Toronto, unless otherwise noted. Tucked away in a charming, three-storey apartment building, located between Little Italy and Little Portugal in Toronto’s West End, is one of the city’s...
  • Germany #49 (Catatonic Man), 2009 Next month, the Magenta Foundation will publish its third monograph focusing on the work of a single photographer. The Dead, by Jack Burman, will feature 50 colour plates of his challenging and visceral, yet finely...
  • Harrell Fletcher & Wendy Red Star, Made in India: Still from a colour video (2009). Courtesy the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the artists. American artists Harrell Fletcher and Wendy Red Star explain how a rug, received as a gift, transformed...
  • Joe Dallesandro promoting Trash in Berlin, early 1970s: Photo courtesy Little Joe Productions and joedallesandro.com. Curator Jon Davies discusses a landmark Andy Warhol-produced film By Bil Antoniou Andy Warhol has been called the 20th Century’s...
  • Gareth Long: Untitled (Books), 2008: Four books. Courtesy the artist and Kate Werble Gallery, New York. A young Canadian artist takes on New York — and J.D. Salinger By Bill Clarke Despite the current downturn in the New York art market, the Big...
  • Ferit Kuyas — City of Ambition By MaryAnn CamilleriFounder and Executive Director, The Magenta Foundation It’s been a while since my last circuit of portfolio reviews at Rhubarb Rhubarb, the international photography festival held...
  • By Bill Clarke Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983), 1980-83. Installation view at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. Lannan Foundation; long-term loan. Photo: Florian Holzherr. The German Conceptual artist Hanne...