The thrill of seeing an undergrad student on the bus, poring over their highlighted copy of Stokstad.

Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.

Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...

With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.

Write fast and Don't Think (trying this out as a "get your book done already" mantra)

Over the last five (eight? Ten?) years I’ve realized the profound responsibility and pleasure it is to be a part of an artist’s practice via friendship and to truly understand their work as it develops. 🙏 to count @narrowrooms.bsky.social as one of my people as I watched her present her work today

Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall

Seriously! How the hell is that allowed? Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.

Just waiting for @aircanada.bsky.social to pre-emptively cancel our flight home from visiting family in Vancouver rather than returning to the bargaining table with @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants. Solidarity with the workers.

From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.

The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.

ELLE A GAGNÉ !!! Championne 🔥 Bravo, Victoria Mboko ! www.rds.ca/tennis/omniu...

So long, York U office.

I bring a text about parenting, technology & creativity to read aloud each year at MOTHRA: an artist parent residency on Toronto island. Today, we read the introduction to @hzeavin.bsky.social’s “Mother Media” and talked about extended kinship, pathologizing mothering and artists as media

“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.” 🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse: www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...

Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life

Is there an online support group for disappointed Parisians who have moved to any other city in the world?

I regularly teach a graduate seminar called Un-Learning the Archive at York University in the faculty of education, and every year I assign Anjali Arondekar's "For the Record" in a week about the body and the archive. Until this year, her work seemed to fly under the radar.

I love this animal.

Students who thank you for transforming their research after they hand in their final assignment: this never gets old ✨

We are looking for a postdoc for our research group in digital sociology within DIGSUM. The research is about how false information is created and spread across digital platforms, and how it can affect public opinion and undermine democracy. Spread the word! www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...

How are we still in a place where a child-focused supposedly trauma informed health service will ask for a mom and dad’s name — rather than the names of the parents — on their intake form? Truly astonishing

Against all odds, or maybe because I arrived here in 2006 at the height of Torontopia, I still love this city best of all

The Kahnawà:ke Lacrosse team in a studio portrait taken in Montreal by photographer William Notman. The team took part in an exhibition tour of Britain, playing matches against a touring Canadian team, under the billing ‘Twelve Canadian Gentlemen v. 12 Iroquois Indians.’ Musée McCord Stewart

We saw a wave of people running for election in 2016 and I think that's going to happen again!

Reconsidering Reparations Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change. Monday, March 31st at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Today from 2-3 pm on Zoom! Please join us for "Creative Risks: Navigating Ethics in Arts-Based Research with Children and Young People," a roundtable discussion about the practical and philosophical issues at play when researching with children and youth. Register www.yorku.ca/edu/events/c...

I really needed this. Thank you to the 200+ people who showed up for Open Hearing on Sunday to shout, read poetry, demand transparency, start unionizing and tell jokes together. Sitting at the kids table was super fun. More to come soon. Love, EMILIA-AMALIA

We have 40+ speakers signed up for Open Hearing this Sunday, March 2nd, 3-7 pm at Cafeteria on Dupont. Kids welcome! Light food & drinks for sale! Manifestos, poems & diatribes on offer! Kiera Boult hosts and there will be a cowbell for anyone who goes over time: www.emilia-amalia.com/open-hearing/

And I regret not taking a selfie of Kirsty Robertson and I in our (accidentally) matching Horses coats on Valentine’s Day. Next time.

Had a hellish 24 hours escaping New York before the snowstorm hit Toronto, which meant I missed the last day of #caa113 but I had such a good time seeing friends and colleagues, new and old, and saw nothing but excellent, interesting papers.

And if you ever encounter a completely enticing and bewildering textile based work laid horizontally on the gallery floor accompanied by a cheesy photo of a mountain sunset and wonder what new artist made this work the answer is always Mike Kelley, back in 1991

The collections based show on movement in sculpture is also full of pleasant surprises by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mona Hatoum, David Hammonds and Xaviera Simmons

Took a much needed break to see the Orphism and sculpture shows at the Guggenheim. Picabia, Delaunays, Duchamp never get old

Alice Ming Wai Jim, Marissa Largo and Alexandra Chang celebrating 10 years of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures of the Americas (ADVA) journal at #caa113

Paulina Choh’s paper on the use of group portraits in photo albums as evidence of identity claims under conditions of internment in early 1900s America was fascinating. #caa113

Kirsty Robertson on this recently uncovered 1966 photograph of Eva Hesse washing wire, coated in asbestos, in a bathtub, part of the production of her work “Metronomic Irregularity” at #caa113. Part of @siobhanangus.bsky.social and Kevin Hong’s excellent panel “Chemical Intimacies”

Christopher Williams-Wynn at #caa113 on socially motivated participatory and community art in the UK in the 1970s, including Stephen Willats’s works in the “wastelands” of The Lurky Place

@katerinakorola.bsky.social on the toxic impacts of colour photography development in East Germany’s Filmfabrik Wolfen. Look at these amazing psychedelic images of women working in the factories, one of whom reported “the darkroom was my life”

"That you can't fight City Hall, is a rumor being spread by City Hall." - Audre Lorde

the timeline will correct when the bills finally win the super bowl — sorry, i don’t make the rules

Call for Participation: “Open Hearing” is an open discussion around the future of the Toronto art ecosystem. Inspired by the Art Workers Coalition’s event in New York in 1969, the hearing intends to generate conversation, ideas & solutions for the wide range of problems facing our community.

In my still getting hurt feelings when I am declined from a fellowship era

In my salad kit era

Jacob Lawrence, The migrants arrived in great numbers, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134641

I love this time of year because people will post something super dramatic and vague like “Nooooooo” and I can’t tell if it’s about football or *gestures outside window* all of this.

With respect to the current Book Discourse, this is just a little note to say that PFB will not order, display, or sell "books" produced or assisted by generative AI. Open, shut, done.

I participate in a totally normal sport.