The art pedagogy issue. Includes regular columns and exhibition reviews. This issue includes:
100th ISSUE FEATURE
• To Be Seen and Not Just Heard About: On a Painting by Rae Johnson: Catherine MacTavish , who wrote about the Toronto artist Rae Johnson in the first issue of C, revisits her work 24 years later
VIEWS
• No Typical Donor
Declining government support means it’s a daunting new world for small Canadian arts organizations forced to compete with bigger institutions for sponsorship dollars. And yet private art philanthropy in Canada is on the upswing. Lydia Peroviç reports
• Enthusiasm at the Limit
An event that deploys contemporary art and populism simultaneously, Nuit Blanche risks failure by either standard. Nicholas Brown on Jon Sasaki and Nuit Blanche
FEATURES
• On Kristina Lee Podesva’s colourschool
Michael Birchall looks at the Vancouver artist’s ongoing experiment in art pedagogy? and puts it into the context of the wider trend
• Exhibitionism
Gregory Elgstrand looks at the concept of the “learning exhibition”
• Do Curators Need University Curatorial Programs?
Gabrielle Moser on the professionalization of art curation in Canada today
• The State of Art Criticism and Critical Theory
Earl Miller investigates the obscure subculture of art writing, and speculates about the terms of its future relevance
ARTIST CENTERFOLD
Love Song For A Future Generation, by Krista Buecking, 2008
BIG PICTURE
AS-RA, 2007-8, by Peter Gazendam