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Does it make sense to support the arts? An economist’s view on cultural funding.

In the strokes of a hammer on flesh, sinew and bone, our ancestral roots were laid bare. The hidden truth was revealed.

Aritha van Herk depicts Alberta after five years of liberal rule.

One hundred and thirty years after Treaty 7, a stunning new centre honours Siksika culture.

Robert Kroetsch’s long poem is to Albertans what Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is to Americans. Revealing how we create a culture out of emptiness, the poem’s mystery lies in what it leaves unsaid.

The Edmonton Art Gallery has been rebranded. It has a new name and will get a fabulous $48-million facelift. But can the EAG really be the art gallery for all of Alberta?

An expat Calgarian peers into the past.

Contemporary poets who share our geography, vernacular and social concerns can heighten our sense of place and identity.

Why fight for an Indigenous film industry?

A gallery visitor who stepped into Joane Cardinal-Schubert’s Kitchen works: sstorsiinao’si installation was confronted with compelling and contradictory images during the ’98-’99 Alberta Biennial [...]