PUBLIC is an interdisciplinary journal with a core focus on the visual and media arts. Our mandate is to provide a space for critical thinking about the arts, and for showcasing rich artistic projects. We strive to be an accessible, “original, critical, beautiful” journal about art. PUBLIC stands apart because we are conceived as a hybrid intellectual and creative forum that investigates how theoretical and critical issues intersect with art and public culture. As such, our contributors—consisting of artists, scholars, curators—provide in depth and rigorous discussions on issues, themes and concerns within the contemporary visual arts. We publish a diverse range of contemporary artists’ projects and experiment with alternative forms of dissemination and design. We regularly invite guest editors from a variety of communities and organizations and feature established and up-and-coming writers and artists. In order to be a cutting edge publication we also regularly collaborate with various art institutions and organizations. Each 144+ page issue is focused around a contemporary theme, creating a work of assemblage by presenting original writing in context with artists’ projects, all presented in a well-packaged design, that is meant to have the presence and longevity of a book, but with the timeliness of a magazine. PUBLIC strives to engage with a local and international readership through its sustained commitment to publishing quality content, and also by organizing activities, events, and artistic interventions. Content of each issue is selected through a combination of a call for papers/projects, and by invitation and also includes book and exhibit reviews, and a special column by Ian Balfour.
PUBLIC is sold and distributed across Canada and internationally. The subscriber base consists of individual scholars, critics, artists, and curators, and major institutions such as university, museum, and public libraries. PUBLIC is distributed in bookstores, newsstands and museum/gallery stores (ISSN: 0845-4450).
PUBLIC was founded in 1988 by the Public Access Collective, a charitable non-profit organization. Its evolving membership has been curating and producing projects and urban interventions, speaker series and artist talks for over 20 years.
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