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Vanessa Nicholas

Vanessa Nicholas is a freelance writer based in Toronto, where she also works at OCAD University. She completed her MA at the Courtauld Institute in 2009 and has since worked at the Venice Biennale, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Canadian Art.



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Dead Unicorns: Apocalyptic Anxiety in Canadian Art

Art

Issue No. 3

Vanessa Nicholas

Art

Issue No. 3

David Altmejd’s installation for the Canada Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale was a complex labyrinth of ferns, nests and caves littered with stuffed...

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Interview

October 2014

Interview with Otobong Nkanga

Louisa Elderton

Interview

October 2014

Some things are meant to be lost. You can’t collect emotions. As the artist Otobong Nkanga tells me this,...

fiction

September 2014

The Fringe of Reality

Antoine Volodine

TR. Jeffrey Zuckerman

fiction

September 2014

Many thanks to those who have allowed me to speak; now I’ll do so.   I’m actually not talking...

poetry

Issue No. 2

Portraits of Pierre Reverdy and Three Poems

Sam Gordon

poetry

Issue No. 2

ANDRÉ BRETON The most memorable thing about our meetings [around 1919-1920] was the almost complete bareness of the room in...

 

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