Stan Douglas’ “Abbott and Cordova”

I am totally biased about such things, because I love Stan Douglas’ work (so much so I am writing a thesis about it), but this week the artist’s newest photo project, a huge mural destined for the renovated Woodward’s building in Vancouver’s...

Todd Haynes’ “Superstar”

Apparently, director Todd Haynes, of Far From Heaven and I’m Not There fame, made a reenactment documentary of the life of Karen Carpenter shortly after his graduation from Brown University with a degree in art and semiotics (not surprising). Called...

Kaja Silverman, “The Miracle of Analogy”

The Cinema Studies Insitute at U of T recently organized four nights of lectures by art historian and critic Kaja Silverman on photography, film and (to a certain extent) affect. I only made it to the first lecture, called “The Miracle of Analogy,” but it...