R.M. Vaughan is the author of eight books. His most recent book is Troubled: A Memoir in Poems and Fragments.
The happy art of failure
Kelly Andres’s charming flower-dyeing contraption may be headed for a breakdown, but it’s fun to watch
The art of seeing with the eyes of a terrorist
Two exhibitions grapple with understanding (but not condoning) horrifying acts of political violence
Lost in Luke Painter’s petrified forest
Artist’s obsessively intricate works walk the hairline between nightmarish and twee
Derek Liddington’s fender blender
A complex installation centred on a ’68 Mustang touches on father-son bonding, male domination and the death of Roy Orbison
Let me introduce you to Suzy Lake, national treasure
All that the art world is currently obsessed with is present in this survey of the Canadian artist’s work dating from the 1970s to today
The Paul Good Papers: The past speaks; we still shudder
In a multimedia exhibition, Deanna Bowen has assembled a portrait of a terrible time
A game of patient logic vs. manic impulse – in paint
Radoslaw Kudlinski’s contradictory new paintings present an imagery of maps and diagrams, then undermine this male-painter rationalism with glimpses of fertile disorder
An exhibition that ponders the moon's malice, menace and magic
Jason De Haan’s latest exhibition ponders the many faces of the moon in vividly imaginative ways
All Sharon Switzer needs is a comfy Freudian couch
Part of the fun of viewing this exhibition of video and digital prints is playing free-association games
Is a prayer rug the same thing as a mosque?
A show of gorgeous prayer rugs at the Textile Museum inspires a sense of reverence
