Arts

He was sure every Who in the town was resistant / To keeping their gatherings socially distant. / “And they’re cooking their turkeys!” he yelped with anxiety. / “The year 2020 has crippled society!”

Laila El Mugammar: At its centre is public art, literature and more. The Canada emerging is one where I am visible.

Paul Wells: Ten camera crews across the country, a dozen diverse soloists performing in a half dozen languages and one remarkable version of Handel’s Messiah

A 76-year-old classic captures our moment like nothing in the holiday canon. But you want the original lyrics—not that treacly Frank Sinatra version.

An ambitious new retrospective explores the early years of the small-town folk singer, from a Yorkville coffee shop to an undeniable musical force

Toronto-based actor, comedian and writer Julie Nolke on the pros and cons of hitting it big during the pandemic

In a new biography Terry Mosher writes about one of this country’s most important political cartoonist, Duncan Macpherson

John Geddes: The painting shows ’a peaceful, rich life’. In reality, the Nazis murdered the painting’s Jewish owner and the artist was on the Nazi side.

Laila El Mugammar: Every time I stand for the Canadian national anthem, I think about the song’s composer, who founded a blackface minstrel troupe. What does it mean to sing the melody of a man who wore me as a costume?

The award-winning playwright, actor and inaugural artistic director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre sat down with senior writer Paul Wells