In 2021, the Point asks writers about the deep-seated issues that Covid-19 has brought into view, and how they might tackle these problems to create better post-pandemic futures.

March 1, 2021
Dear ______________,
Let’s get something straight: Michael Findlay is a dealer.

After almost two decades of living in Germany, the Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K moved back to his birthplace in Kurdistan in early 2020.

“Madness fascinates because it is knowledge,” observes Michel Foucault in Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961).

In December 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 snapped a picture of
home as they rocketed toward the moon.

At Centre A, Vancouver-based artist Gu Xiong’s exhibition,
“The Remains of a Journey,” told a history of Chinese
migrants, predominantly from Guangdong, who traveled
to the west coast of Canada over a century ago to prosper
from “Golden Mountain.”