Art

Quillette Cetera Episode 17: Too Gay for the Christian Church, Too Problematic for the Woke Church

An interview with "anti-woke" artist Melody Rachel.

Zoe Booth

18 Sep 2023 · 1 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 · 10 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 · 19 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 [https://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Modern-Library-Best-Novels/dp/0679600116/ref=sr_1_4?crid=NG7V10N9NCDB&keywords=ulysses&qid=1643218547&sprefix=ulysses%2Caps%2C75&sr=8-4] , whose