Publications

Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America Author(s) or Editor(s): Sarah E.K. Smith Publisher: UBC Press Year: 2025 Description: At the end of the twentieth century, North America was reinvented as an economically cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental unity expressed by the 1989 [...]

Handbook: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education Edited by Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala Published by Queer Publishing Project and OCAD University Publications Program Year: 2018 HANDBOOK is a collaborative intervention in art and design pedagogy. It offers faculty a radical rethink on how to work with queer and transgender students on [...]

Title: The Rise of Chinese Contemporary Art in the West Author(s) or Editor(s):  Marie Leduc Publisher: MIT Press Year: 2018 This book examines how Western liberal-democratic values and the art-world valorization of artistic and political dissidence contributed to the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the 1990s. Focusing on nine artists—Wang Du, Wang Keping, [...]

Authors: Sarah E.K. Smith and Sascha Priewe Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / American Alliance Of Museums (2023). Museum diplomacy has come to new prominence in the contemporary moment. Museums have increasingly global agendas, advancing diverse international partnerships across the world. Moreover, they hold the potential to advance cross-cultural education and foster mutual understanding [...]

Edited by Dana Arnold and published by Routledge (2024). The volume of essays includes one by Joan Coutu (University of Waterloo) about women in architectural history in Britain and Canada and one by Annmarie Adams (McGill University) about Maude Abbott. To learn more

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Marc James Léger

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