When the exhibition Much Sense: Erotics and Life appeared at the Walter Phillips Gallery in 1992, public, political and media Interest was intense. The artists explored issues of sexuality, expressing frank viewpoints on topics such as body image and gay and lesbian sexuality. The explicit content of their work sparked an uproar. Politicians, local and national media, and coalitions of arts organizations began a rancorous media debate, alternately battering and boosting The Banff Centre for the Arts and its support of the exhibition. Arousing Sensation offers a fascinating case study of a controversy concerning freedom of expression, funding for the arts, censorship, sexuality, political responsibility, and journalistic integrity. The book combines thoughtful analysis, critical discourse, and full text media clippings from the public debate. Questions raised by the controversy are as compelling now as they were incendiary then. Book jacket.

Texts elaborate the themes which were the basis for four exhibitions held Toronto, Walter Phillips Gallery : On earth & in heaven June - July 1984; Production and the axis of sexuality Jul. - Aug. 1984; Social space Oct. - Dec. 1984; Chicago : biography of an interactive life style Feb. - Mar. 1985.

Catalogue of an exhibition featuring the work of Afghan-American artist, Lida Abdul at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005, and at the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Banff Centre, 2006.

Catalogue of a traveling exhibition of works owned by Walter Phillips Gallery.

"This book is a compilation of essays by leading Canadian and international curators and artists that explores the role of the art object in a broader context of visual and display culture. The book analyzes the human impulse to collect and the social context, rhetoric, politics, and science associated with cultural collections." -- BACK COVER.