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About

C Magazine, established in 1984, is a contemporary art and criticism periodical that functions as a forum for significant ideas in art and its contexts. Each issue explores a theme that is singularly engaged with emerging and prevailing perspectives through original art writing, criticism, and artist projects. Our content focuses on the activities of contemporary art practitioners residing in Canada and Canadian practitioners living abroad—with an emphasis on those from Black, Indigenous, diasporic, and other equity-deserving communities—as well as on international practices and dialogues. We are committed to facilitating meaningful, pluralistic, interdisciplinary, historically-engaged, and imaginative conversations about art.

Readership

C Magazine readers are visual arts professionals and those with a keen interest in the forms, content and meaning of contemporary art - including artists, curators, art writers and critics, dealers, educators, students, consultants and art collectors. We place an emphasis on graphic design as an important aspect of our readers' experience. We also consider the importance of our collective responsibility to the environment—printing C Magazine in limited runs, in full colour UV inks, on uncoated FSC certified paper.

Publication Frequency

C Magazine is published continuously online and in print three times each year in April (Spring), August (Autumn), and December (Winter) by C The Visual Arts Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas, advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture.

Access and Inclusion

C Magazine acknowledges that the majority of discourses pertaining to contemporary visual art have been informed by Western European thought, values and practices. The inclusion of perspectives from diverse groups is central to the vitality of contemporary art, art criticism, its communities and more broadly, society. For more information about our accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion (AEDI) policies please refer to our Accessibility page.

Supporters

For the past three decades, C Magazine has been an essential platform for critical debate about visual art and culture. Your support ensures C’s continued success in developing Canadian art writing and art criticism, presenting public educational programming and building the careers of emerging artists and art writers. We thank our supporters, funders, patrons and partners, both public and private.

C Magazine and C The Visual Arts Foundation gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, the support of the Government of Canada, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Write for Us

C Magazine welcomes writing on contemporary art and culture that is lively and rigorously engaged with current ideas and debates. C is interested in writing that addresses emergent practices and places them in a critical context.

In acknowledgement of the ways that orthographic conventions have the potential to perpetuate colonial thought, expression, and ways of knowing, C Magazine maintains a Living Style Guide. While the Canadian Press Style Guide, Chicago Manual of Style, and Oxford Dictionary inform our editorial work broadly, this guide allows for a more porous, sensitive, and receptive approach to the politics of language as they continually evolve. In many instances, we’ve opted to establish looser baselines, which function as entry points for conversations with our authors. We remain open to feedback about this process and the choices that follow from it.

Contact Us

C Magazine

E info@cmagazine.com
T 416.539.9495

Mailing Address
PO Box 5 Stn B
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 2T2

Advertising Opportunities

C Magazine focuses on contemporary art and culture, and welcomes advertisements and sponsored posts from related institutions, services and brands with an affinity to our readers. Please download our Media kit from our advertising page.

Where to Buy

C Magazine is carried across Canada and in international bookshops, museums, and online shops.