Canvas 11/4/24 Canvas 11/4/24

The Tiny and the Curious: The seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouse as the feminine cabinet of curiosity

In the seventeenth century, Dutch women turned to unusual dollhouses as vehicles of personal expression and self-fashioning.

Canvas 10/18/24 Canvas 10/18/24

An Interview with McGill’s Visual Arts Collection

Canvas sits down with McGill’s Visual Arts Collection to learn more about what they have to offer.

Canvas 4/25/24 Canvas 4/25/24

The (Im)Possibilities of Life and the (Im)Possibilities of Death: Liminality, Identity, and Cyclical Violence in Menace II Society

Canvas 4/23/24 Canvas 4/23/24

Understanding the MFA Short Story as a Capitalist Catalyst

Canvas 3/26/24 Canvas 3/26/24

Tensions in Time: Crypto Art and Temporality

Canvas 2/12/24 Canvas 2/12/24

Music as the Mediator of Love and Sexual Endeavours: Seventeenth-Century Depictions of Women in Domestic and Public Spaces

Canvas 2/6/24 Canvas 2/6/24

Enacted Landscapes: Sámi Naturecultures in Contemporary Duodji

Canvas 1/29/24 Canvas 1/29/24

Attracting a Buyer with Motion: Examining de Keyser’s Use of Pose in Portraiture

Canvas 1/14/24 Canvas 1/14/24

Divine Transformation: Reconfiguring Kali’s Feminist Iconography in Contemporary Western Art

Canvas 11/23/23 Canvas 11/23/23

Small Bronze Sirens of Renaissance Venice: A Feminist Critique on the Fetishization of the Mermaid

Canvas 11/7/23 Canvas 11/7/23

Marveling in Terror: Violence, Materiality and Salvation in Titian’s 1576 Saint Sebastian

Canvas 11/1/23 Canvas 11/1/23

Pleasure and Parody in the Harem: Elisabeth-Jerichau Baumann’s encounter with Princess Nazli Hanim

Canvas 3/5/23 Canvas 3/5/23

Early Oligarchal Penology: The Amsterdam Rasphuis as a Built Portrait of the Dutch Republic

As a built portrait of the city, the Amsterdam Rasphuis portal affords wealthy Dutch citizens the opportunity to fashion identities for themselves and their subordinates.

Canvas 3/3/23 Canvas 3/3/23

Revving Engines and Reverberant Sound: Noise in Formula 1

Noise in Formula 1 is reaching a breaking point where pleasing both fans and host communities may not be possible anymore.

Canvas 2/2/23 Canvas 2/2/23

The Afghan War on Rugs

Afghanistan has been exporting war rugs since 1979—many now hang in museums. So why don’t we know their makers?

Canvas 1/19/23 Canvas 1/19/23

Devotion, Exports, and Civic Duty: Gerard David’s Functional Landscapes

According to Sally Whitman Coleman, Gerard David’s landscapes are non-functional alongside other Flemish Primitives—but Emily Vescio disagrees.

Canvas 1/19/23 Canvas 1/19/23

The Fuller Brooch as an Anglo-Saxon Object

The Fuller Brooch dually embodies constructs of Englishness and the “Anglo-Saxon.”