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  • Article

In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

  • Article

Invisibility

Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?

  • Photo story

The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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  • Portrait of Wolfred Nelson. From a lithograph in the Public Archives of Canada.
  • NCUACS : National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists under the guidance of the Royal Society's National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology : with compliments.
  • Two people hugging, with list of ways of taking care for people with HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph for the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada.
  • Two people hugging, with list of ways of taking care for people with HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph for the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada.
  • Nine posters promoting the benefits of sexual abstinence and warnings about the importance of condoms and safe sex by the National AIDS Stategy, Health Canada. Lithograph.
  • A feathered circle inside which are several faces of native Americans; advertisement for Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Lithograph by Julie Simoa, 1995.
  • Verso: two people hugging with list of ways of taking care from washing your hands to compassionate care for people with HIV/AIDS (English version); part of a project by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph.
  • A circular crossed plate (?) incorporating indigenous symbols including a feather, a pipe, a polar bear and stones above a pot of flames; advertisement for the Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness program for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Julie Simoa.
  • A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
  • A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
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