Field Notes

Articles in Field Notes


November 2009

Virtual Emigration

Faced with hard times, Icelandic architects are finding work in Canada


October 2009

Gaga For Gags

Behind the scenes of Canada's hidden-camera hit, Just for Laughs Gags


June 2009

Chop Chop Square

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system

The Peace Plus One Social Club

Inside the budding Chinese environmental movement


May 2009

Chop Chop Square

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system

Walk to the Black Rock

Montreal’s Irish community remembers its dead


April 2009

Love and Rockets

An India-Pakistan wedding, briefly interrupted by fighter jets.


December 2008

Word is Born

A new tongue emerges from Kenya’s cabdrivers

Twilight in Tacheles

A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on

Tiger Balm

Nirvana amid the jungle cats of Bangkok

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Harmony in Several Hundred Parts
Harmony in Several Hundred Parts
by Debra Singer | FEBRUARY 2004
The artist Sarah Sze uses everything from Q-tips to living plants

Camp Nowhere
Camp Nowhere
by Siri Agrell | MARCH 2006
—Somewhere in the Middle East, sparkling in the desert sun, is a piece of Canada no one can really explain. It is a single plastic tiara,