top of page

smART
Magazine

COVERING THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Top Picks

1. Xavier Dolan.jpg

In Focus: Xavier Dolan

The celebrated Canadian film director makes his TV debut with The Night Logan Woke Up

1. Xavier Dolan.jpg

Tegan and Sara Celebrates No.10

20 years in the Industry and More Relevant than Ever

1. Xavier Dolan.jpg

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

“It’s a great luxury and, to be honest, very addictive.”

1. Xavier Dolan.jpg

Angel Olsen’s Big Time

“Why am I so unafraid right now?”

1. Xavier Dolan.jpg

COMPOSER: Bryce Dessner

On composing the music for Alejandro Iñárritu’s Bardo, Yale residency, and upcoming projects

1. Xavier Dolan.jpg

Ross Gay On Inciting Joy (and Gratitude)

The celebrated poet on his latest collection, and holding space for gratitude

Community

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

smART x Stratford Pt.3: Casey and Diana

A theatrical exercise in compassion that represents the very best of Stratford 2023

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

smART x Stratford Pt.1: "King Lear"

Paul Gross delivers a Lear of a lifetime

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

smART x Stratford Pt.2: Monty Python’s Spamalot

An absurdly funny, absurdly fun, tsunami of laughs

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

Curran’s Tosca is an unashamed feast

An original COC production sticks the landing

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

Yuja Wang & the TSO

Wang returns to Toronto for a lights out performance of Rachmaninoff’s No.3

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

Cécile McClorin Salvant

Salvant soars for RCM’s “Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage”

Latest Release

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

Cloistral #2: Iryna Maksymova

The Ukrainian artist contrasting the hyper-masculine imagery of the war with harmonious female figures

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

JULIAN LAGE

On Layers, View with a Room, the gritty warmth of his guitar sound

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

Samara Joy

Ascending to a new height in her artistry, jazz music’s premiere savant is ready to learn new things

11.21 _ 13. Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière.jpg

Reflections with Timo Andres

The pianist and composer on bring the latest release by Sufjan Stevens to life

Issue 11

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

The DNA of the TSO

As the Toronto Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 years, a new vision takes hold

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Tekahionwake

The double life of Emily Pauline Johnson’s Poetry

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

CERAMICS: Raluca Buzura

From kindling to kiln, how ceramics become wearable art installations

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Mining Minimalism

Ecocriticism meets a revisionist history of minimalism

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

The Society of Illustrators vs. A.I.

When AI creates art, who should get the credit?

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Ragamala Dance Company

How a mother-daughter duo is bringing classical South Indian Dance to the global stage

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

TODOS Productions

New Canadian perspectives on cultural convergence in cinema

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Chet Tilokani

“My role also has a caveat of staying out of the way of the story as much as possible.”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

ON THE SET: Women Talking

Actor Sheila McCarthy on the Oscar-nominated film’s work culture

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp

Welcome to the “smallest museum in the world” at The Forestay Museum of Art

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Kent Monkman At The ROM

How the celebrated artist appropriates Western styles of portraiture for new perspectives on Indigenous identity

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

COLLAGE: Hanoch Piven

“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Julian Montague’s Top 10 Books on Design

Welcome to our inter-issue series inviting artists to curate top-ten lists

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Raw Poetic

“Pull from everywhere, because we didn’t belong anywhere”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Le Diamant

A dynamic cultural beacon revived the past, repurposed for the present, and designed for the future

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

That Girl: Performing an Aesthetic

How TikTok commodifies girlhood and renders selfhood as consumerism

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

#rhodesmustfall

Can the toppling of statues help erect a more comprehensive collective memory?

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Anis Mojgani’s Radical Empathy

In conversation with the Poet Laureate of Oregon

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance Company

“We are the music that we see”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Andy Shauf’s Norm

The singer-songwriter finds a new creative process to match a compelling narrative

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

The Last of Us: Natasha Mumba

“Everybody’s working from a place of desperation”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Oseredok

How the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre has been preserving the country’s collective memory since 1944

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Climate Activists vs. A Gallery Near You

“If you do something that can get ignored, it gets ignored”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Between Pheasants Contemporary

Fowl play is encouraged in this unique gallery experience

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Kezna Dalz

Botticelli meets Black Girl Joy

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Collins Obijiaku

An emerging portraitist in search of new postures and perspectives on the African continent

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Mother Sorrow: A Work in Progress

From blueprints to footprints on stage, a contemporary dance project unfolds

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

The Flying Sailor

“Imagine the story of the sailor’s flight as a subjective, visceral, slow-motion ballet”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Chad Lawson

With breathe, the pianist and composer delivers beautiful music for a crazy world

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

When Immersive Theatre Goes Too Far

The psychological dangers of participatory theatre are present even in the correction to Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

COMPOSER: Fazil Say

On returning back to Bach

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

4CO Films

Actor Clint Butler steps behind the camera for socially responsible storytelling

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Maja Lena

A bold new voice in the U.K.’s folk scene embarks on a celestial journey

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Meet the Producers: Alice, Darling

“We wanted to show that things don’t have to be physical for it to be bad enough to leave”

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

A MAMbo Restrospective

How an innovative concept traded curatorial neutrality for a cohesive and socially responsible exhibit

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Welcome to the Museum of Bad Art

Getting rejected by this gallery just might be a good thing

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

TEXTILES: Laura Rokas

How can galleries make more space for less conventional media?

Tegan & Sara painting v2 - more saturated_edited.jpg

Delali Cofie

Towards a new visual perspective on the global African diaspora

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE LATEST IN THE VISUAL, IMMERSIVE, AND PERFORMING ARTS

bottom of page