- Weekend Links: The quiet confidence of craftsmanship
This could be the revelation of some brilliant draftsmanship in exhibitions close to home this month, or the melancholy of having packed up my James North studio this weekend, but my first Weekend Links of 2012 is less issues-driven and more redolent with the high notes of art well made. From anonymous paper sculpture to […]
- Akimblog Hamilton now online
After what feels like a long absence, I had a great time getting back into Akimblog with another Hamilton report that has now been posted for your reading pleasure. Included in this month’s round-up are quite a few stand-outs from James North this month - Jeff Nye at Hamilton Artists Inc., From the Ground Up […]
- The Fisher King & Other Mythologies at Gallery on 4
After a crunch-tastic holiday season and some fantastic high-speed framing from the good people at Earls Court Gallery (seriously Bob, I owe you one), I’m pleased to report that The Fisher King & Other Mythologies is now installed for your viewing pleasure at the Hamilton Public Library’s Gallery on 4. After the past several years […]
- Ghosts of exhibitions past and future
I’ve found lately that the challenge of maintaining this blog lately is not so much in the demands of a full-time occupation - rather, it’s in balancing that job with exhibition commitments inherited from my more flexible freelance days. When combined in recent months, the studio and the office achieved a critical mass that left […]
- ‘A Vanishing of Bees’ at upArt Contemporary Art Fair
Obviously, blogging has not happened around here with anything like my old-time regularity, but at least this time I’m packing a double-barrelled shotgun’s worth of excuses. In addition to the usual demands of the day (and often night) job, I have been investing all free time possible in the studio preparing for my installation at […]
- Weekend Links: The value and values of art
Anyone reading this blog likely comes with the agreement that art has a value. The links this weekend explore how we come to determine that value, either in terms of credibility, money or action figures and video games.
Takashi Murakami as action figure by Mike Leavitt (Source: artinfo.com)
Are critics the best thing for art since artists?: […]
- ‘The Birds and the Bees’ and more in C Magazine
Reviewing exhibitions for the quarterly art magazine circuit is an exercise in deferred pleasure, but it’s well worth the surprise of having a freshly printed issue materialize in your mailbox as a friendly reminder that yes, you did write something a few months ago, didn’t you? Not to mention, new magazine smell.
The most recent issue […]
- Disclaimer: The Long Version
Anyone still visiting this blog despite its recent dearth of new content will notice a new addition in the sidebar in the form of a disclaimer. While my new role as Executive Director of the Hamilton Arts Council has made free blogging time hard to come by, I do intend to resume posting activities here […]
- Weekend Links: Site-specific
The new job makes for less time to invest in my usual blogging activities, so this weekend’s links round up a few highlights from recent days as well as a few older yet resonant reads on the knowing (and not-knowing) of particular places.
The desolate melancholy of the U.S.S. Enterprise sickbay (Source: spacetrek.tumblr.com)
Space: The Empty Frontier: […]
- Weekend Links: Little Big Cremaster!
It’s not so much that there weren’t newsworthy things to be read in the arts blogosphere this week - if you’re here for the serious, you could always check out Hyperallergic’s round-up of Ai Weiwei updates or this nifty Art Fag City contemplation of art’s spiritual side, but this heat-wave we’ve suffered through this week […]
