Charlene K. Lau
Charlene K. Lau is an art historian, critic, and curator who has held fellowships at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Parsons School of Design, The New School and Performa Biennial. Her writing has been published in
Artforum, Atlantic.com, the Brooklyn Rail, Canadian Art, Frieze, Fashion Theory and Journal of Curatorial Studies, among others.
Why Black artists should spend 2021 forging our own paths â not trying to fix broken institutions Our collective protests have created a chasm, one we can fill with Black art, new ideas, and our full selves, writes artist and activist Rodney Diverlus.
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Black Light is a column by Governor General Award-winning writer Amanda Parris that spotlights, champions and challenges art and popular culture that is created by Black people and/or centres Black people. While Amanda is away on maternity leave, a different writer will be featured in a guest edition of the column each month. This month s edition is a point-of-view essay by movement artist and Black Lives Matter â Canada co-founder Rodney Diverlus.
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Socializing is essential. Here are 11 creative ways to have fun remotely
From virtual dinner parties to book clubs, these activities will lift your spirits during lockdown By Kelsey Adams, Julia Mastroianni, Kevin Ritchie, Glenn Sumi and Richard Trapunski
Jan 21, 2021
It’s gonna be a long winter.
Toronto is in lockdown again and at the worst possible time: the grey doldrums of January. With public health officials urging us all to stay home except for essential reasons, we’re left with few ways to safely connect with others outside our own households. While getting exercise, de-stressing and self-care are all important ways to improve mental health under lockdown, so is seeing other people.
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Three years ago, I signed up for Ancestry.com’s AncestryDNA service, having been drawn in by the company’s TV ads. You might remember the most famous one, in which a white-appearing woman named Kim burbled about how she’d learned she was 16 per cent Native-American.
Alas, when my own test results came back, they showed I was about as multicultural as the appetizer list at Snowdon Deli. The included Ancestry.com map showed a bunch of orange dots clustered densely in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Hungary basically a map of pre-Holocaust Jewish Europe each corresponding to an “ancestral community” statistically associated with my DNA. To the south, my most exotic ancestors were Romanians. In the north, the farthest my forebears made it was Denmark. Turns out I was exactly who I thought I was: a boring white guy descended from Ashkenazi Jews.