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Canadian artists fear backlash for speaking on Israel-Palestine Canadian artists fear backlash for speaking on Israel-Palestine Thousands signed petitions but many fear losing work or being labelled anti-Semitic By Radheyan Simonpillai Brennan Suche Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Yonge-Dundas Square on May 22 to protest Israeli government actions in Gaza Documentary filmmaker and activist John Greyson, writer Rinaldo Walcott, and musicians Mustafa and Broken Social Scene are among the Canadian artists who put their names to petitions showing unprecedented support for the Pales...

Cancon music aficionados are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Canada’s Juno Awards. Known variously in Juno history as “Best Single,” “Best Selling Single,” and now “Single of the Year,” this award always garners attention. The Junos and sometimes controversial Canadian content regulations came into being at around the same time to promote Canadian culture to Canadians. Whatever the award’s name, the winning song emphasizes Canada’s place on pop music’s world stage. Reflections on these songs, both personal and historical, make the music even more compelling. Here’s ...

Maclean's earns 17 National Magazine Awards nominations Writers, editors, designers and photographers were all nominees—and Maclean's is also up for best magazine When the National Magazine Awards released the list of finalists for its 2021 awards,  Maclean’s was nominated in 13 different categories that honour feature and profile writing, columns, photojournalism and design—every corner of the magazine’s newsroom.  Maclean’s is also up for best magazine in the news, business and general interest category. “This was a year when current affairs magazines really had to step up,�...

Rinaldo Walcott locates his contribution to the Field Notes series on current issues, On Property, in the present political moment, while using historical references and events to argue for the abolition of police and property. For Walcott, a professor at the University of Toronto whose research areas include Black diaspora cultural studies, “property is a problem.” Using the “communal philosophy and anti-capitalist stance” of Rastafarianism and “ideas expounded by radical Black feminism,” Walcott builds a case for why abolition of property would lead to the “transformation of ...

Exhibition presents work by Phoebe Boswell while she was sequestered at home during the UK's lockdown Phoebe Boswell, Notes on a Lockdown: World View VI, 2021. Pastel on paper, 44 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. NEW YORK, NY .-Sapar Contemporary announces Still Life: A Taxonomy of Being, the gallery’s second solo exhibition of work by Phoebe Boswell. The exhibition features 49 drawings, watercolors, and pastels created between December 2020 and April 2021, while Boswell was sequestered at home during the UK’s third government-mandated lockdown. The artworks and the sound of Boswell breathing fill the gall...