Art festivals

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Asks What It Means to Sustain an Artistic Life

For its 65th anniversary, Canada's largest and longest-running contemporary art fair built a program around the conviction that artists deserve infrastructures as enduring as their practices.

By Chenoa Baker

Curator Samantha Katz’s Festival Blueprint for the Post-Spectatorship Era

"Art has been put on a pedestal that makes people feel like it is untouchable, inapproachable. Anything that helps remove that narrative and invite people into the process in a more participatory and accessible way benefits us all."

By Christa Terry

What the Reykjavík Arts Festival Can Tell Us About the Future of the Interdisciplinary Biennial

Here, interdisciplinarity is both a programming strategy and a vision for how art might function in society: participatory, interconnected and embedded in everyday life.

By Chenoa Baker

“What Now: 2026” Puts Art at the Center of the Nation’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations

By Chenoa Baker

Can Art Save Main Street? Some Small Towns Are Staking Their Futures On It

By Daniel Grant

Jodhpur Arts Week Edition 1.0 Centers Craft in Contemporary Practice

By Christa Terry

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