Canada Faces A Reckoning Of Its National Cultures

“Blithe celebrations of a national birthday in the art world turned into a fury of self-critique, a rupture in the status quo through which all manner of marginal histories came flooding. Indigenous art in particular came to dominate the scene with major institutions nationwide joining an earnest, long-overdue effort to acknowledge not only its remarkable breadth and power, but the ugly, long-waged, government-sponsored effort to erase it from our national life.”