Dutch artists contributed to the commodification of Black bodies in colonial Brazil by employing cotton as a visual signifier of enslaved status

Sugimoto's photographs disrupt perceptions of linearity by conjuring nostalgia for a bygone era of American cinema.

The painting affixed to the ceiling of India’s Rashtrapati Bhavan holds a complex history of hidden meanings and reappropriations over time.

Dutch portrait artists in the seventeenth century carefully selected clothing as a statement of class and social attitudes to reflect the nation’s ideals.

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

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

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.