Brendan Fernandes, Encomium, 2015. Performed by Damian Norman (left) and Sky Fairchild-Waller (right). Photo Henry Chan.Resulting from a keynote perform

Episode 6: The Mobile Critical Marathon

Mar 11th, 2015 1m 6s

On January 7th, 2015, I set out to see and review every show that sent me a press release and had gallery hours that day. I saw 8 shows across Toronto, hoping to chronicle the city’s artistic ecology and perform the frantic activities of critic

Episode 5: Understanding Your Biases

Jan 27th, 2015

What do you like? What does everyone else like? Are there things you think you like only because you like them that might, in fact, be tastes bred into you by the subtle forces of social coercion?Is art a numbers game? Should it be? What is you

Episode 4: Regionalisms

Nov 26th, 2014

Regionalism is a perhaps-necessary complication in a huge country divided by arbitrary borders. But it's also contentious: what does the place we make work say about the kind of work we make? This episode, contributions from Amber Christensen a

Episode 3: Inuit Art

May 31st, 2014 26m 58s

Inuit art has a huge role to play in the art market, especially in Southern Canada. It's to be found in major museum collections, the homes of private collectors, and commercial galleries. It seems like everywhere you look, some website is tryi

Episode 2: Unprofessional Development

Apr 8th, 2014 46m 30s

This month, we talk about the confines of the professional, and the things that lay just outside those confines: day jobs, religion, biography, internships, scandals, rejecting an art-making formula, and the things that happen in the meantimes

Episode 1: What is Art?

Mar 4th, 2014 38m 26s

What it Looks Like is born! A good introduction starts at the beginning, introduces the concepts, feels out the field, asks some ol' fashioned low-ball questions. But asking what art is can be a bit tedious. Instead, this month's podcast explor

A new website, and episode 1 in the works.

Jan 20th, 2014

What It Looks Like is chugging along. As the website's in production, there are all kind of preparations underway for the podcast launch in March. Here are a few of the exciting things happening so far: many great conversations with friends, me

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