Lancette Arts Journal offers mostly benign criticism, but sometimes its reviews and stories lance deeper than usual. We do this not out of malicious intent, but because we feel it is required. In addition to reviews, Lancette also contains a commentary section about general arts topics or suitably related subjects. There, if needed, the lancing will definitely be deep, but not necessarily so.

To make the journal fully rounded, it also offers a section about upcoming Canadian cultural events, news in the arts and entertainment world, and two pages of web links to other web addresses of interesting sites in Canada and internationally.

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The motto of Lancette is Ars est celare artem, which roughly means "true art conceals the means by which it is achieved." Ovid's maxim in his Ars Amotoria was that the best art works do not distract the audience with the artist's technique. Instead the viewer or listener should respond to a work's power. Hence, real art must appear artless.