When new technologies arrive on the scene, it’s always uncertain how artists might use them – if at all.

Lucky North American civilians have only experienced war at a distance, but changing modes of depicting armed conflict are influencing our ideas about it. This show by Gallery TPW, in collaboration with Ryerson Image Arts and OISE, stands out for including a mix of representations of war – personal, journalistic, dramatic and visual.

Toronto doesn’t have a folk art museum, but the Gardiner partly fills the gap, not only with Staffordshire figurine makers and Mexican Day of the Dead artisans, but also with idiosyncratic contemporary sculptors operating outside prevalent art trends.

It’s pretty unusual (or as some might say, terrible) for a critic to wish that an art show had opened earlier to coincide with movie premieres and celebrity sightings.

Video was not always my thing. Accustomed to viewing predictable narratives from the comfort of the couch or multiplex, I balked at the prospect of sitting on a box wearing headphones to watch some repetitive or static experiment.