2013
At MOCCA, the lighter side of Louise Bourgeois. Review/feature in The Globe and Mail, published August 12, 2013.
Feature on Ai Weiwei’s “According to What?” retrospective. Flare magazine, August 2013.
“Joni Mitchell’s Forgotten Opuses.” Published June 25, 2013 in Hazlitt.
“Françoise Mouly is the Talk of the Town.” Interview published May 19, 2013 in Hazlitt.
“Love Leaves Few Traces.” Feature on photographer Guillaume Simoneau. Published January 23, 2013 in Hazlitt.
“Circles and Zeroes.” An exhibition essay for artist Scott Waters. Posted January 15, 2013.
2012
“Is She a Snob?” An essay on Rea McNamara‘s event Sheroes. Posted July 23, 2012 on Triangulation Blog.
Janet Werner. Review in the July/August issue of Modern Painters.
“Text/Book: Fabrications Blatant and Hysterical”. On Sebastian Venable in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer. Posted June 29, 2012 on the Toronto Standard.
Essential Performances: Elizabeth Taylor in Boom!, Ethel Barrymore in Portrait of Jennie, Mercedes McCambridge in Johnny Guitar, Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind. Posted June 2012 on Popmatters.com.
2011
Shuvinai Ashoona. Interview in the November/December issue of The Believer.
Maurizio Cattelan’s latest, best prank: hanging his entire oeuvre out to dry, while making the Guggenheim actually work. Online review for Capital New York, posted Nov 4, 2011.
Carsten Höller’s show at the New Museum would have you participate, but leaves little to the imagination. Online review for Capital New York, posted Oct 26, 2011.
Painter Viktor Mitic gives new meaning to the term ‘watercolour’. Feature in The Globe and Mail, published Oct 20, 2011.
Stan Douglas. Review of his “Midcentury Studio” show at David Zwirner Gallery in Border Crossings no. 119, published September, 2011.
Stan Douglas: Seeing through a hard-boiled lens—or not? Feature in The Globe and Mail, published Apr 21, 2011.
2010
Jon Pylypchuk. Critic’s Pick on artforum.com, posted Dec 21, 2010.
“Landscape/Cityscape.” Review for ARTnews, November 2010, 133.
Gilbert Garcin. Review for ARTnews, October 2010. 177.
Luis Jacob. Critic’s Pick on artforum.com, posted July 22, 2010
The Secrets of the Dead: Canadian photographer Jack Burman looks for meaning in preserved bodies. Feature on CBC.ca/arts, posted June 14, 2010.
Making a Statement: Artist Barbara Kruger Brings Her Pop-Art Propaganda to Toronto. Feature on CBC.ca/arts, posted May 4, 2010.
Return of the Scopitone. Essay on ryeberg.com, posted January 26, 2010.
2009
Q & A: Camille Paglia on art, camp and Twitter. Interview on walrusmagazine.com, posted July 27, 2009.
2008
“Chan Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume.” Exhibition essay for Gallery 44, Toronto.
The Future of Canadian Culture: Visual Arts. Essay for Canadian Notes & Queries 75, Winter 2008/09. 8-10.
2007
Nue propriété. Review for Cinema Scope, Winter 2007, Issue 29. 54-55.
Ugly is Ugly: The Crisis of Canadian Art Criticism. Essay for Canadian Notes & Queries 71, Summer 2007. 70-73.
2006
Drawing Restraint 9. Review for Cinema Scope, Winter 2006, Issue 25. 44-45.
Poster Expressionists: Canada’s postering scene makes its mark. Feature on CBC.ca/arts, posted March 9, 2006.
Misreading Blanche: Teenage Hormones Hijack A Streetcar Named Desire. Essay in Maisonneuve No. 19, Spring 2006. 50-52.
Oh Canadiana: Highlights from the Canadian Design Resource. Feature on CBC.ca/arts, posted April 18, 2006.
Reimagining Cuba: Stan Douglas’ Inconsolable Memories is a mind-bending history lesson. Feature on CBC.ca/arts, posted April 25, 2006.
Culture Clash: Annie Pootoogook captures Canada’s North-South divide. Feature on CBC.ca/arts, posted June 27, 2006.
Capsizing Vessels: Harry Thurston’s A Ship Portrait. Review in Books in Canada, May 2006. 31-32.
Hit Charade: When it comes to picking pop singles, does software know best? [As Rob Gentry, with Derek Aubichon]. Essay in Maisonneuve No. 20, Summer 2006. 16-19.
CONTACT Photography Festival: Imaging a Global Culture. Essay/review in CV Ciel Variable, 73. 34-35.
Hot Docs 2006: Thinking Inside the Box. Essay/review in Cinema Scope, Summer 2006, Issue 27. 32-34.
2005
Virginia Woolf’s Lost Rejection Letter. Satire in Maisonneuve No. 15, Spring 2005. 10.
Donigan Cumming, Moving Pictures. Essay/review in CV Ciel Variable, 69. 31.
Images 2005: Super8 Stories and Experimental Logbooks. Essay/review in Cinema Scope, Summer 2005, Issue 23. 70-73.
2004
Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics by David Levi Strauss with an introduction by John Berger. Review in Prefix Photo, No. 9, May 2004. 72.
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