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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design. She is the founder and editor of the popular art resource, View on Canadian Art and her writing appears in exhibition catalogues and on Artnet.com, in Azure, ARTnews, Art Review, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, CV Photo, DesignLines, the Globe and Mail, Monocle, Quill & Quire, Toronto Life and other publications. Her broad range of interests includes contemporary criticism, design, architecture and cultural administration. She works part-time with Profis Communications and consults on art and architecture. She is a member of the City of Toronto Public Art Commission and sits on the board of ArtsScene, Toronto.
Patriotism and nationalism in art: 10 years after 9/11
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Andrea Carson
| September 15, 2011

Patriotism is defined as a "love of one's country." Nationalism is a more complex thing, referring I suppose to one's nationhood, as distinct from one's homeland. It's a topic explored in the new show at MOCCA in Toronto, which opened on Friday, days before the anniversary of September 11, 2001.

ANTUAN

ANTUAN, Left or Right, (detail). Image: mocca.ca

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Government arts grants: Preaching to the choir?
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Andrea Carson
| September 2, 2011

I've been thinking recently about Canada's arts granting system. With all this talk of financial reform, from the global to the municipal levels (hello, Rob Ford), maybe it's time we looked at whether the granting system in Canada could use some reform of its own.

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Haute Culture: General Idea at the Art Gallery of Ontario
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Andrea Carson
| August 8, 2011

AIDS (Gold) 1987, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas. Katharina Faerber Collection, Geneva Image: VoCA.

This weekend, I went to the media preview of Haute Culture, the retrospective of famed Canadian artist collective General Idea, which opens this Friday with a FREE party at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

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