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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

John Kissick

John Kissick is a painter and writer, and Director of the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph.

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John Kissick

Wild Painters

Tall tales from Toronto’s vanguard of the abstract October 2010
Fashion—be it in clothes, in music or even in art history—is a curious thing. Mapping the inevitable ebb and flow of an idea might seem an all too predictable enterprise; yet it grants those so inclined the opportunity to take stock of the apparent fickleness of human nature. An idea’s upward trajectory—from its radical newness to critical…