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Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Asks What It Means to Sustain an Artistic Life

For its 65th anniversary, Canada's largest and longest-running contemporary art fair built a program around the conviction that artists deserve...

17.07.2026 3

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Chenoa Baker

What the Reykjavík Arts Festival Can Tell Us About the Future of the Interdisciplinary Biennial

Here, interdisciplinarity is both a programming strategy and a vision for how art might function in society: participatory, interconnected and...

30.06.2026 10

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Chenoa Baker

In Philadelphia, a New Art Fair Removes Scale From the Equation

Elsewhere's inaugural iteration was the embodiment of Philadelphia's vivacious spirit and scrappy determination.

08.06.2026 10

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Chenoa Baker

Meet the Collector: How Katherine Sachs Became a Convener

For the ArtPhilly founder, collecting has never been about wealth-building or prestige.

14.05.2026 20

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Chenoa Baker

La Biennale de Québec: What Shifts When Ice Splits

Ice, immigration and imperialism converged this year in North America's only winter biennial.

01.04.2026 20

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Chenoa Baker

What the Art World Can Learn from the Intersectionality and Multiculturalism of Art Toronto

This fair is not perfect, but it's working to mitigate the effects of the settler-colonial capitalist paradigm.

03.11.2025 20

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Chenoa Baker

‘Body Vessel Clay’ Offers a Material Portal to the Ancestral Plane

The Ford Foundation Gallery has gathered the work of three generations of groundbreaking Black women artists in a masterclass in curatorial sightline.

29.10.2025 30

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Chenoa Baker

BlackStar Film Festival’s 2025 Selections Unpack the Power and Pretense of Cinema as a Liberatory Tool

The festival raises several questions, including: Is film reflective of what society is or what it can be? Is it a way to break free or a tool of...

14.08.2025 30

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Chenoa Baker

Beatriz Amelia Whitehill’s Papier-Mâché Vejigantes and the Fluid Cartographies of Borikén

Her use of fragile, vernacular materials challenges institutional norms and reclaims the aesthetics of everyday resistance.

28.07.2025 20

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Chenoa Baker