“If a modern nation is understood as an imagined community unified by specific traditions and institutions that affirm that community’s belonging, then whose ‘national’ gallery is the NGC, when many of us are excluded, and when we do not see ourselves reflected on its walls?”

Publication: “Whose ‘National’ Gallery? Representation at Canada’s Premier Art Museum,” Vie des arts (January 23, 2024).

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