Editorials
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Online Etiquette: An Interview with Kaylina Kodlick
By Katya Conrad
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Kaylina Kodlick
It’s not every day that you get to talk to someone as creative, intelligent and kind as Kaylina Kodlick. In October, McGill Cultural Studies and Art History student Kaylina exhibited an artwork, officially “Untitled” for the Fridge Door Gallery’s IRL/URL vernissage. This was a painting…
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The Rise of the Introspective Instagram Comic
By Sophia Kamps
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Bill Watterson
My first love with comic strips was Calvin and Hobbes. I never really considered them art. Instead, I considered them stories. Funny, relatable, sometimes oddly heartbreaking stories. When I was seventeen, that precarious age when life seems to be rushing quickly towards an end of…
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Lost histories: Bringing stolen artifacts back home
By Nicholas Raffoul
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Redpath Museum
In the past year, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have begun to admit that many works dispersed across their museums and private collections are stolen artifacts from European colonial empires from the 19th century. As these stolen collections demonstrate, legacies of colonialism persist within…
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Lorna Bauer’s “Tool for Idlers”
By Hannah Megally
Lorna Bauer’s “Tools for Idlers” is a humble meditation on place, urbanism and architecture resulting from a research residency in Rio de Janeiro, during which the artist spent much of her time in the home and gardens of Brazilian modernist landscape artist, Roberto Burle Marx. The exhibit…
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Mary Pop Pop Poppins: Murals of Montreal
By Katya Conrad
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“Winds in the east, mist coming in, like somethin’ is brewin’ and bout to begin…” What is about to begin, or more accurately what is already underway, is the huge PR campaign for Disney’s upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns. Today, for about the sixth time this week,…