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In The News: A User’s Manual, Alain de Botton argues that more sensitive portrayals of criminals would lead to greater empathy. But news media doesn’t completely refrain from humanizing criminals—it just depends on their skin colour.
Every weekend Carl Wilson looks at the events of the past seven days in the mirror of art and culture. This week: extreme weather everywhere and a little help getting through it.
The ongoing conversation about whether protagonists ought to be likeable reveals how shallow the quality is in the first place.
Kim Adams’ Bruegel-Bosch Bus feels like an exploded toy chest—a sculpture set in an old Volkswagen, stuffed with action figures and other nostalgic ephemera. If it seems like Adams—the subject of a new Art Gallery of Hamilton retrospective—is playing ... well, good.
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