Robert McKaskell

R O B E R T M C K A S K E L L

+ Marcel Duchamp Research Files

Robert McKaskell was born in Montreal in 1943. After receiving degrees in music and comparative arts from Acadia University, Indiana University and Ohio University, and teaching for several years in the United States, he accepted a teaching position in contemporary art theory and criticism at (then) the University of Western Ontario in 1974. In 1990, he took a challenging joint position with the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the University of Manitoba and a one-year curator contract at the Glenbow Museum during this time. He returned to Southwestern Ontario in 1996 to become Curator of Historical Art and the Collection at the Art Gallery of Windsor. After 2002, Robert worked as an independent curator, living between Port Dover, Ontario, and Oaxaca, Mexico, and where he initiated a program of exhibitions of regional artists.

Left:
Bob by Wyn Gelenyse
Graphite on ground glass sandwiched between broken glass and clear glass, Translucent tape.
Glass size: 18 x 13 cm.
With Mahogany base:
20 x 9 x 19 cm.

Courtesy and copyright of the artist.

Photographs courtesy of Hugh Barrett

Homage to Marcel Duchamp, 1987
A collaboration between Forest City Gallery, London Regional Art Gallery and McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario

16-page PDF:
Cover, introductions, McKaskell text, first image page of the opening and closing performance, and credit page.

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From the archives of Jamelie Hassan

Introduction to Iain Baxter, Products, Place, Phenomenon
Art Gallery of Windsor, 1996

3-page PDF.

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Neo-Dada
Art Gallery of Windsor, 2000

4-page PDF.

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Robert mentions the concurrent Komar and Melamid exhibition (right) in Neo-Dada (above).

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Superlatives
Mendel Art Gallery, 2000

4-page PDF.

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1953
The introduction to Robert McKaskell’s essay and concluding paragraph, with related footnotes
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2003

4-page PDF followed by two images (pictured below).

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Beyond Bounds, Art in London 1970-1987
Museum London 2005-2006

The Embassy Cultural House, 1983 – 1990

41 page PDF.

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EDITORIAL TEAM

CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITOR
Tariq Hassan Gordon

ASSISTANT COORDINATING EDITOR
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Matthew Dawkins, Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, & Turing Xu.

VIRTUAL TOURS
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Matthew Dawkins, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil, Michelle Wilson, & Turing Xu.

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program:

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.