Royal Art Lodge at The Drawing Center

By Randy Gladman.  Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2003 “I would like some bad-acting and wrong-thinking. I would like to see some art that is courageously silly and frivolous, that cannot be construed as anything else.” So wrote the art and culture critic Dave Hickey in an essay that appeared in Art issues during the summer of 1996. Though it is unlikely they were aware of this request, the young members of the Winnipeg-based drawing collective known as The Royal Art Lodge first formed in the same year and have worked...