September 2020
"The Best Art In The World"
September 2020 - "The Best Art In The World"
James D. Campbell
James D. Campbell is a curator and writer on art based in Montreal. The author of over 150 books and catalogues on art, he contributes essays and reviews to Frieze, Border Crossings and other publications.
articles by this author
Visions of Divine Excess: The Possession of Noviadi AngkasapuraShaman in the House! Symbols of Healing and Transformation in The Art of Imam Sucahyo at Galerie Robert Poulin
Magister Equitum: Nomadism and the Ceramics and Drawings of Jean-Pierre Larocque
Andrea Szilasi at La Vitrine
The Masks We All Must Wear: Some Notes on Luc Giard’s Transgressive Portraiture
A Simple Stoic Weighs the Sanctity of Place: Thoughts on the Art of Kathryn Keller
Dark Entanglement: Further Remarks on the Art of Paul-Emile Rioux
Archetypes of the Apocalypse: Speculations on the Art of Romulo Cesar
Van Gogh’s Bed: Ewa Monika Zebrowski and the Art of the Book
Ecstatic Edgeworks: Limit Experiences and Fluid Morphologies in the Art of Max Wyse
Avatars of Alterity: The Empathic Art of Balint Zsako
All Her Dark Places: The Visionary Art of Nancy Ogilvie
Running with Wolves: Anna Torma’s Rhizomatic Wanderlust
Interview with Margaret V. Haines
Blue Passage: Alain Paiement at the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal
A Golem who Drew Scars: The Case of Daniel Erban
Pandemonium Raga: Guy Boutin’s Orchestral Tagging
Janet Werner and the Portrait Reinvented at Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal
Kim Dorland: Nailing Down a Butterfly at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran
Where the Wild Things Are: Fractal Morphologies and the Unfettered Bestiaries of Shawn Mackniak
The Art of Alchemy: Marc Garneau at Galerie Lacerte
Hatching Furies: Auguries of War and Witchcraft in the Art of Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo
Jane Corrigan: Of the Air at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran
Barbara Steinman at Darling Foundry
Marc Leduc at Galerie Robert Poulin
Immanence, charisma and the category mistake
Yoko Ono's LIBERTÉ CONQUÉRANTE/GROWING FREEDOM
Here be Dragons!: The Devilish Deliria of Henriette Valium
Paul Bureau: Ephemeral at Patrick Mikhail Gallery
Women's Work at L'INCONNUE
Topographical Epiphanies: The Art of Marc-Antoine Nadeau at Galerie Robert Poulin
Lorraine Simms' "Phantom" at Galerie Deux Poissons
Review: "Watercolour/s"
David Armstrong Six: Night School at the Darling Foundry in Montreal
NO PLACE Alison Yip Emily Ludwig Shaffer Quintessa Matranga Galerie L’Inconnue Montreal
Les Ramsay at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal
Louis Boudreault Fragments d’Écriture à l’ Espace Musée Québécor 11 Février au 15 Avril 2019 Montreal
Daniel Erban/Guy Bailey at Galerie Robert Poulin in Montreal
Adumbrating the Uncanny: The Installations of Natascha Niederstrass
The Light Within You: Heidi Thompson Vernon Public Art Gallery
Jasmina Cibic Everything That You Desire and Nothing That You Fear at DHC/ART Montreal
River Belly: Kristy Luck + Alan Prazniak Projet Pangee Montreal
Pour John Heward The Problem of the Other Face
Aude Moreau Triumphs In Montreal At Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran
Amy Schissel “Hyper-Atlas” Galerie Patrick Mikhail
Françoise Sullivan Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal
Lorna Bauer: Tools for Idlers Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal
Ambera Wellmann: (Wo)man and Beast in the Round of Their Need
Michael A Robinson: The Gift Of Oblivion - Galerie Diagonale Montreal
Thea Yabut - VIBRISSA L’INCONNUE
Alien Geometry: The Geonics of Paul-Emile Rioux
Fiona Annis' The light that was never was
Jessica Eaton: Iterations (I) at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran
The Poetry of the Face and the Fragility of the Finite: The Art Brut of Anick Langelier Galerie Robert Poulin Montreal
Bharti Kher Points de départ, points qui lient DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Montreal
Je relis tes lignes : Marie-Michelle Deschamps et Eleonore False at Diagonale Montreal
Nathalie Thibault Études pour coups fumants
Michael Merrill Interior Theatre: An Episode in the Life of an Itinerant Eyeball Part Two: The Gallery in the Studio The Artist’s Studio in cooperation with Galerie Roger Bellemare Galerie Christian Lambert Montreal
Michael Merrill Interior Theatre: An Episode in the Life of an Itinerant Eyeball Part One: The Studio in the Gallery at Galerie Roger Bellemare Galerie Christian Lambert Montreal
Celia Perrin Sidarous at Parisian Laundry
Dan Seagrave Becoming a Ghost at Soon.tw
Gabor Szilasi “The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980” McCord Museum Montreal
Natural Gesture: Anne-Renée Hotte Exhibition at Galerie Trois Points
The Exhibition Drinkers of Quintessences at Montreal's Darling Foundry Brings Together 12 Artists
Bill Viola's "Inverted Birth" Takes Us Through Stages of Awakening
Four Pillars Hanna Hur, Laurie Kang, Maia Ruth Lee, and Zadie Xa
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Daringly Pairs the Past and the Present
Jeanie Riddle Open Letter To The Women
Vikky Alexander “Unnatural Horizon” L’Escalier
Montréal Honors Leonard Cohen, One of Its Own, in Showstopper Exhibition
Jasmine Bakalarz: Diaspora
Canadian Painter Martin Golland Opens in Montreal
Melanie Authier at Galerie de L’UQAM
