A collection of 63 posts
Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps"
An interview with "anti-woke" artist Melody Rachel.
How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps.
A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.
Preaching the gospel of Indigenization and decolonization, administrators are overruling their own art experts.
Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses, whose publication centenary will be observed on February 2nd, is one such book. Like Marx’s Kapital, Joyce’s door-stopping opus has kept academics
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.
“Who’s there?” These are the two words that begin Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is primarily this question, and not “To be or not to be?” with which Hamlet wrestles throughout the play. The two words are spoken from one soldier to another; Elsinore’s castle guards are on the
They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish.
I once directed a classical musical—Anything Goes—at Canada’s Shaw Festival. But that’s the only play I’ve directed that was seen by a large audience.
If heaven needs to be segregated, what hope does Earth have?
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers.