PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas
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A beautifully designed print journal focused on the social and political dimensions of contemporary art and visual culture. Published biannually by Public Access, a Canadian not-for-profit and registered charity.
Join us Friday Oct 17, 5-7pm for the launch of PUBLIC 71: Against Oblivion 📣 We'll be in the Fireside Lounge at York University for this year's UAAC. Grab a copy of this amazing new issue (amidst a postal strike!) and refreshments 🍷 Lotsa back issues & books available for purchase!
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Join us Friday Oct 17, 5-7pm for the launch of PUBLIC 71: Against Oblivion 📣 We'll be in the Fireside Lounge at York University for this year's UAAC. Grab a copy of this amazing new issue (amidst a postal strike!) and refreshments 🍷 Lotsa back issues & books available for purchase!
Are you in the Edmonton area next week? Come to an epic (and FREE) screening of 5 experimental IMAX films, preceded by a rare screening of Graeme Ferguson’s North of Superior (1971), the first film shot entirely in the IMAX format! www.eventbrite.com/e/outer-worl...
September 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Are you in the Edmonton area next week? Come to an epic (and FREE) screening of 5 experimental IMAX films, preceded by a rare screening of Graeme Ferguson’s North of Superior (1971), the first film shot entirely in the IMAX format! www.eventbrite.com/e/outer-worl...
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In the wake of the devastating Eaton Fire that ravaged nearly 7,000 structures in and around Altadena, the Getty Foundation has committed $420,000 to document the loss of culturally significant sites in the area and take stock of its “intangible heritage.”
New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage
LA’s Getty Foundation is funding the documentation of the historic neighborhood as developers rush to buy up burned lots.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In the wake of the devastating Eaton Fire that ravaged nearly 7,000 structures in and around Altadena, the Getty Foundation has committed $420,000 to document the loss of culturally significant sites in the area and take stock of its “intangible heritage.”
🚨New Review Alert🚨 "Archives of Resistance: The Politics of Remembering in Suneil Sanzgiri’s «An Impossible Address»". In their review, Mustafa Uzuner examines various levels of uncertainty in this hybrid film-installation as profound counter-archival gestures. publicjournal.ca/online/archi...
Archives of Resistance - PUBLIC
The Politics of Remembering in Suneil Sanzgiri's An Impossible Address 12 April—14 June 2025 Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada Published 11 June 2025 Featured image: Suneil Sanzgiri, still from An Impossi...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🚨New Review Alert🚨 "Archives of Resistance: The Politics of Remembering in Suneil Sanzgiri’s «An Impossible Address»". In their review, Mustafa Uzuner examines various levels of uncertainty in this hybrid film-installation as profound counter-archival gestures. publicjournal.ca/online/archi...
Just over a month left to submit to issue 73: (Re)Mediating Soils, to be published in Spring 2026. We're looking for articles, artist projects, personal essays, interviews, and poetry about relational approaches to soil-as-media. Read the full call + proposal guidelines at publicjournal.ca/submit
April 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just over a month left to submit to issue 73: (Re)Mediating Soils, to be published in Spring 2026. We're looking for articles, artist projects, personal essays, interviews, and poetry about relational approaches to soil-as-media. Read the full call + proposal guidelines at publicjournal.ca/submit
Just 6 weeks left to send in a proposal for Issue 72: (Searching For Home). This issue will examine various concepts of home through displaced and diasporic perspectives. Propose an article, personal essay, artist project, or short story at publicjournal.ca/submit Deadline: Feb 21st.
January 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Just 6 weeks left to send in a proposal for Issue 72: (Searching For Home). This issue will examine various concepts of home through displaced and diasporic perspectives. Propose an article, personal essay, artist project, or short story at publicjournal.ca/submit Deadline: Feb 21st.
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"You have a maid who either scolds you or adores you, or both. You have never shown the slightest interest in exploring her interior life. Neither has she."
Signs You May Be a Female Character in a Work of Historical Fiction
Your name is Sarah. A stranger has walked up to you, explained how a system of transportation works, and left before you could further converse wit...
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January 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"You have a maid who either scolds you or adores you, or both. You have never shown the slightest interest in exploring her interior life. Neither has she."
We finish this year's edition of PUBLIC Online with a new column: Notes From Somewhere... Gabby Moser looks back with a critical eye (and a slushy boot) at the 60th Venice Biennale, reflecting on its curatorial promises—glints thereof and obvious gaps. Read it here: publicjournal.ca/online/forei...
“Foreigners Everywhere” – PUBLIC
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December 17, 2024 at 7:25 PM
We finish this year's edition of PUBLIC Online with a new column: Notes From Somewhere... Gabby Moser looks back with a critical eye (and a slushy boot) at the 60th Venice Biennale, reflecting on its curatorial promises—glints thereof and obvious gaps. Read it here: publicjournal.ca/online/forei...
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Martin Filler on the art of Bruce Nauman
A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler
Among the most memorable interactions I’ve ever had with artists occurred during a trip I made to New Mexico in August 1992 to interview Susan Rothenberg
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December 5, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Martin Filler on the art of Bruce Nauman
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS • PUBLIC 72: (Searching For Home) — Seeking essays, articles, poetry, short fiction, and visual art for publication in Fall 2025. See the full details and submit a proposal at: publicjournal.ca/submit
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 PM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS • PUBLIC 72: (Searching For Home) — Seeking essays, articles, poetry, short fiction, and visual art for publication in Fall 2025. See the full details and submit a proposal at: publicjournal.ca/submit
📣 Announcing our 30-day donor drive! 🏁 This year, when you give you also get back. From now until Friday December 20th we're offering free subscriptions, books, and artist multiples on a 6-tier scale of giving. Check out all the details and donate at: publicjournal.ca/donate #charity #notforprofit
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
📣 Announcing our 30-day donor drive! 🏁 This year, when you give you also get back. From now until Friday December 20th we're offering free subscriptions, books, and artist multiples on a 6-tier scale of giving. Check out all the details and donate at: publicjournal.ca/donate #charity #notforprofit
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Out today: Taking Back Control? by Wolfgang Streeck
An exploration of the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy.
An exploration of the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy.
Taking Back Control?
The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centraliz...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Out today: Taking Back Control? by Wolfgang Streeck
An exploration of the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy.
An exploration of the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy.
Now available for pre-order 💨 70: The Weather ☔️ ed. Joel Ong. This issue investigates the cultural, literary & engineered histories of the weather, focusing not only on the felt effects of climate collapse but also on embodied ways to understand our changing atmosphere. Purchase at publicjournal.ca
November 20, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Now available for pre-order 💨 70: The Weather ☔️ ed. Joel Ong. This issue investigates the cultural, literary & engineered histories of the weather, focusing not only on the felt effects of climate collapse but also on embodied ways to understand our changing atmosphere. Purchase at publicjournal.ca
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And, here we are—goodbye toxic Twitter-verse. We've switched the scenery but none of the substance. Followers: Rest assured that we'll continue to provide you with updates on our upcoming print journals, most recent online publishing, and insightful and invigorating artist talks and panels.
November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
And, here we are—goodbye toxic Twitter-verse. We've switched the scenery but none of the substance. Followers: Rest assured that we'll continue to provide you with updates on our upcoming print journals, most recent online publishing, and insightful and invigorating artist talks and panels.