The Religious Instinct in a Godless World The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples. Megan Gafford 9 May 2024 · 12 min read
Where Do Works of Art Belong? An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps" Megan Gafford 27 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
Too Gay for the Christian Church, Too Problematic for the Woke Church: Quillette Cetera Episode 17 An interview with "anti-woke" artist Melody Rachel. Zoe Booth 18 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World 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. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman 4 Sep 2023 · 11 min read
Paranoid Pop A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists. David Cohen 19 Dec 2022 · 20 min read
At Canada’s National Gallery, Ideological Enforcers Are Pushing Out Veteran Curators Preaching the gospel of Indigenization and decolonization, administrators are overruling their own art experts. Paul Gessell 13 Dec 2022 · 20 min read
A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100 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 Jared Marcel Pollen 31 Jan 2022 · 13 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops. Angus Fox 11 May 2021 · 17 min read
Identity and the Self in 'Hamlet' “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 Marilyn Simon 6 May 2021 · 13 min read
Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish. Craig Clifford 14 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work) 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. Sky Gilbert 9 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
Struggling with Pixar’s 'Soul' If heaven needs to be segregated, what hope does Earth have? Colm O'Shea 12 Feb 2021 · 12 min read
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven. Matthew Wardour 3 Feb 2021 · 7 min read
The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers. Jack Reilly 7 Jan 2021 · 12 min read
Wide As the Sky and Deep As the Ocean The film and the recording revealed a frail man, his mobility and speech compromised by the crippling sclerosis that had probably hastened his decision to leave the music business. David Breuer 17 Dec 2020 · 15 min read