What do you do when your hope for the future starts to feel fragile? And what can a painting, an act of remembrance, or a bottle of perfume do about it?
Duncan MacKenzie sits down with Haitian-born artist Manuel Mathieu at Calgary’s Esker Foundation for a conversation that moves between studio practice and the world beyond it. They begin with Mathieu’s presentation at the 2026 Venice Biennale, including GENOCIDE and his mosaic Abundance and Drought, then explore archives, erasure, political power, the responsibilities of artists, and whether art can make room for disagreement without closing down empathy.
Pope.L’s lengthy and productive career, regrettably cut short in 2023, is catalogued as conceptualist, activist, poet, performer, conjurer, and quasi-ethnographer. The artist was a radical progeny of Fluxus with keen rebukes of institutions, cultural or...
0. The Great Art Tailgate with Bad at Sports October 3, 11AM-3PM Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — Anne & John Kern Terrace Garden: 220 E Chicago Ave 1. The Caliber of Risk October 1, 6-10PM No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave Work...
