ARTS

Illustration of television with anime show playing

Post-pandemic art

How might future media portray life during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Illustration of Shang-Chi hero

Marvel’s Shang-Chi

An experience, not an experiment
Illustration of viewers watching a film in a theatre

TIFF 2021: a return to in-person

TIFF is back to normal! Except not really. But kind of!
Logo of VISA

Community in times like these

How VISA builds communities like no other
Photo of entrance of the Art Gallery of Ontario with crowd outside

Campbell’s noodle soup for the artist’s soul

An examination of the AGO’s Andy Warhol exhibition
A person looking off into the distance at sunset

Is Lorde’s new album bad or are we just scared we’re growing up?

The queen of coming of age music has evidently come of age
Abstract art of an anthropomorphic bird

Interview with a Toronto Islands resident artist

The Strand sits down with sculptor Alastair Dickson
Illustration of the characters in the DIary of a Wimpy Kid novel

Becoming a wimpy man

Representations of masculinity in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie
collage of chalk sketches of anime characters

Chalkboardom: a new pastime

The tale of my newfound affection for colourfully powdered fingers and 2D art.
Illustration of student with backpack looking at university campus

Finding balance

How my love of the arts turned toxic, and served as a reminder to live life fully