Mark Mann

Following her mother’s murder, Amber Tamm Canty found healing and purpose through farming. Now, with thousands flocking to her cause, she’s aiming to change the landscape of food security in New York, starting with Central Park. The harvest that…

Floral designer Sophia Moreno-Bunge’s wild-foraged arrangements celebrate the magnificent strangeness of plants. We tend to forget how weird plants are. Call it plant-blindness: all those sinewy sculptures, all that colour, but we hardly remember to…

Richard Misrach finds the sublime in the desert’s harshness. It was the light that drew Richard Misrach into the desert, back in the 1970s. He’d been photographing hippies in San Francisco, but portraits made him uncomfortable. He didn’t like the…

The story of gentrification is both too complicated and too simple to be told well. There’s no proper shape for it, nothing to support its weight, and no good ending. For though the details call urgently to be remembered – what’s changed, what’s lost…

How conflicting ideas about the goals of a mature dance collaboration derailed Banff Centre's Creative Gesture Residency in 2016

Crows and ravens don’t deserve our dread. In Murder, photographer Guillaume Simoneau offers a surprising new vision of black birds. The title of Guillaume Simoneau’s latest book of photographs, Murder (MACK), is a red herring. We expect some kind of…

A strange sort of ambiguity reigns over the photographs of Ben Zank. Each one is a meticulously crafted visual joke, and yet despite the careful staging, they have a spur-of-the-moment quality. This aspect of cultivated spontaneity drew us to his…

When we meet on St. Catherine Street in Montreal on a chilly Thursday afternoon in October, Bridget Moser tells me she has recently been crying in her hotel room. A parrot on a TV show had died. “It was really sad,” she explains, laughing, but also…

The word “pioneer” gets used a lot to describe Agnes Denes. The Hungarian-born artist helped launch several important artistic movements in the 1960s and 1970s, including environmental art and land art. She was one of the first to create large-scale…

Andreas Wenning never set out to become the world’s preeminent treehouse architect. At first, he just wanted to build one for himself, because, well, he liked the idea of hanging out in a nice space that also happened to be in a tree. His first,…

In the two years that I apprenticed in a stained glass studio, I designed and built many windows, though only one was any good. Most were crap, a few were okay, but one in particular was genuinely nice. Beautiful even: a strange and self-possessed…

In the history of public snow art, there’s probably never been a more fertile period than the mid-winter of 2020. In those scary first weeks of the pandemic, as lockdown restrictions came into effect, many people found themselves with an abundance of…

Ferdinand Ludwig dreams of turning cities into inhabitable forests. His research led him to the wettest place on earth, where bridges are made from living trees. It’s no coincidence that the planet’s wettest patch of earth is also home to its most…

In 1998 a young soldier named Philip Cheung travelled to Nunavut to learn survival skills from the Canadian Rangers, a unique sub-component of the Army Reserve in the North. Nineteen years later, Cheung—now a seasoned combat photojournalist—returned…

Every five or six years, the painter Margaux Williamson quits painting. In these moments, she thinks she might not go back. But something always comes shuddering darkly up – an instinct, a distant possibility – and she’s compelled to dive back in…

The Camino de Santiago trail has drawn millions of people with its promises of absolution, discovery, and healing This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current. The pilgrims in León are easy to spot. They…

Extremely long nature videos won’t satisfy our need for the outdoors, but they just might fill the gap until your next excursion outside. On 24 December 1966 New York City television station WPIX aired Yule Log, a looping two-hour shot of a…

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” Jennifer Osborne sometimes thinks about this line from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest when she reflects on taking photos in fire zones. “You’re like, ‘This is the most terrifying thing I can imagine,’”…

Under fluorescent lights, a woman kneels in front of me and performs a blowjob. Her long brown hair tumbles around her thin shoulders and frames her turquoise eyes as she looks up. Behind us, men in golf shirts stream back and forth, chatting and…

THE IDEA Toronto has bid on the Olympics five times since 1960, and failed each time. But Marcel Aubut, the head of the Canadian Olympics Committee, recently told the Star that the moment has come to try again. The relatively smooth lead-up and…