About Border Crossings

If you love art and you want to be taken to unexpected places, if you want to know about the most challenging contemporary artists and issues, and if you want that knowledge to be shaped by the finest writing and images, then Border Crossings is your magazine.

Border Crossings is a tri-annual arts magazine published in Winnipeg. Edited by Meeka Walsh, the magazine investigates contemporary art and culture through a mix of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of drawings and photographs. Border Crossings occupies a vital place in the geographic centre of the North American continent and looks out from there. “Outstanding” is the word readers, artists, curators and gallerists have come to associate with the magazine.

Each issue includes Meeka Walsh’s essay meditations, Robert Enright’s film column, as well as a column called “Picture Library”, where Barry Schwabsky turns his discriminating eye on the most interesting recently published photobooks. His column opens up a whole new world of pictures.

Each issue also contains Border Crossings’s wide-ranging review section called Crossovers, which does exactly what its name suggests: looks at exhibitions and books from around the world and addresses them in the clear and informed language that has become the hallmark of the magazine.

So, now you know something about Border Crossings.

Nothing in Border Crossings is like anything else, from Meeka Walsh’s condensed essays on language, artists, place and architecture, to the highly regarded interviews that have been a significant part of the magazine from its beginnings 43 years ago. Over that span of time Border Crossings has published four hundred interviews with artists from around the world. This partial list gives an idea of our range: Kai Althoff, Phyllida Barlow, Rebecca Belmore, Ross Bleckner, Sandra Brewster, Cecily Brown, Anne Carson, Renée Cox, Marlene Dumas, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Charline von Heyl, Chantal Joffe, Sarah Anne Johnson, Brian Jungen, Alex Katz, Harmony Korine, David Lynch, Tala Madani, Guy Maddin, Liz Magor, Helen Marten, Kent Monkman, Wangechi Mutu, Shirin Neshat, Alanis Obomsawin, Magdalene Odundo, Yoko Ono, Laura Owens, Christina Quarles, Neo Rauch, Susan Rothenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Dana Schutz, Richard Serra, Gedi Sibony, Amy Sillman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Eyal Weizman, Ambera Wellmann, Margaux Williamson and Lisa Yuskavage.