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Excellence at the National Gallery of Canada
2010-03-04
Terms like #the good# and #excellent# have been used to exclude minorities and perpetuate a dominant monoculture. NGC#s current mandate of #excellence# raises serious questions about its ability to re...
Kingston Field Naturalists Sponsor Celebration of Nature
2009-03-31
Kingston Field Naturalists
Kingston Field Naturalists today announced sponsorship of Celebration of Nature, an art show and sale celebrating its 60th anniversary. The show and sale will be held at Sydenham St. United Church on ...
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
2009-06-03
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Badâ## Put Free Speech on the Menu. Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundrai...

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Art, Religion and Hatred
Religious Intolerance in Russia and its Effects on Art
Article
2005
Article 19
Report on religious intolerance in Russia and its effects on artists and their freedom of expression.
Dada
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifes...
Federal Theatre Project
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Article
The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a New Deal project to fund theatre and other live artistic performances in the United States during the Great Depression.
The Lives of Amiri Baraka
Hunter, Kim D.
Article
2014
Against the Current
A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
Unveiled
Art and Censorship in Iran
Boyle, Kevin et al.
Article
2006
Article 19
This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and ...

Sources Bookshelf

The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Mumford, Lewis
Book
1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan...
Film as a Subversive Art
Vogel, Amos
Book
1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
Forged
Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
Keats, Jonathon
Book
2013
Keats uncovers what forgeries -- and our reactions to them -- reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works ...
Lost, Stolen or Shredded
Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
Gekoski, Rick
Book
2013
Gekoski explores in depth the greater questions tremendous losses of art raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativ...
Other Conundrums
Race, Culture, and Canadian Art
Gagnon, Mokia Kin
Book
2000
A collection of essays on Canadian art.
Ways of Seeing
Berger, John
Book
1972
Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.

Media

Applied Arts Magazine
Reports on the visual arts. Instructs and inspires readers by offering insights ino the techniques and creative objectives and challenges behind outstanding design work.
ARTSforum
Arts magazine featuring Durham region's local artists. Music, film, art and exhibits.
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal
A journal devoted to current scholarship and approaches to the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies.
Azure Magazine
Eight times a year AZURE magazine delivers the very best in international contemporary architecture, interiors, furniture and product design. Each issue brings you all the news you need to know to sta...
BC Woman Magazine
Health, beauty, and fashion.
Blackflash
Photography, photo-based art, and new media.
Border Crossings
Covers the range of contemporary arts in North America, including architecture, dance, theatre, poetry, fiction, photography, painting and film.
Canadian Art Magazine
Arts and various media across Canada.
Capilano Review
Fiction, drama, poetry and art from Canada and the world.
Contemporary Verse 2
Feminist poetry, short fiction, reviews and artwork.
dANDelion
Literary magazine produced by senior creative writing students. Content solicited from Canada and abroad. Prose, poetry, image, and text.
Descant
Fiction, poetry, essays, drama, interviews and art.
Espace
The multiple aspects of sculpture.
ETC
Contemporary visual arts.
Fuse Magazine
An active mix of arts journalism, investigative features, artists' pages and reviews of visual art, video, film, new media, independent press and performance art. A wide spectrum of Canadian cultural ...
Geist Magazine
Canada's largest literary magazine. Featuring fiction, non-fiction, reviews, comix, and poetry. Motto: "the imagined Canada is this country's greatest creative act."
Inuit Art Quarterly
The art, artists and issues of the Canadian Inuit.
Latin Life News
Showcasing the best of Canadian Latin culture.
Medusa
The magazine of deviant, Left Coast culture.
MIX: Independent Art and Culture Magazine
Provides an independent, progressive dialogue and documentation of contemporary Canadian culture.
Native Women in the Arts
Published by Native Women in the Arts, a not-for-profit organization. Representing First Nations, Inuit and Metis women who share the common interest of art, culture, community and the advancement of ...
Parachute
In-depth articles about the arts, interviews with artists, reviews of exhibitions and books, and an opinionated debate forum.
ROM
Magazine by Royal Ontario Museum. Articles on science, art and archaeology with regular editorial columns. All content concentrates on the research and collections of the ROM.
subTerrain
Fiction, poetry, commentary, and visual arts.
Vie des Arts
Leading-edge information about innovation in video, architecture, design, painting, sculpture, installation and performance art.
Visual Arts News
Visual arts and artists in Nova Scotia.
Windsor Review
Poetry, short fiction and art, as well as interviews with authors and artists.

Government Ministries & Agencies

National Gallery of Canada
Mandated to develop, maintain, and make known, throughout Canada and internationally, a collection of works of art, both historic and contemporary, with special, but not exclusive, reference to Canada...


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