- Simon Starling at the Power Plant (with a side-dish of Sadie)
I’m arriving somewhat late in the game on Simon Starling’s Cuttings (Supplement) at the Power Plant; the show has been open since the beginning of the month, but now that I’ve got a review that needs writing for the good people at MAP Magazine - presently on residency at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, […]
- Locked inside heart-shaped boxes
Upon eating the last Lindt truffle I received for Valentine’s Day, I found myself left with an empty, heart-shaped box. Red, naturally, with a cellophane window offering a tempting view of an empty gold tray complete with empty, heart-shaped wells where each truffle once sat in symmetry with each other before they fell victim […]
- Artists, work and the lack thereof
Edward Winkleman is currently playing host to an impromptu state-of-the-working-artist symposium over at his blog. I’ve already put in my two cents (somewhere around the point where participants are starting to getting delightfully snippy about class issues, bless), but would like to elaborate on the issue at hand: namely, what should artists be getting […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
Despite last week’s obnoxiously epic snow storm, the weather took a turn for the decidedly pleasant for last night’s art crawl, drawing out the sort of large, enthusiastic crowd I’ve been longing to see on this occasion ever since I moved back to Hamilton last summer. It takes more than a stretch of galleries […]
- Intentionality and the Internet
I’m sure a fair few of my Canadian readers are familiar with Akimbo - and quite possibly, like myself, enjoy their daily deluge of email notices clogging up their inboxes with show invites and calls for submission in far too great a number to be truly useful. I think it’s a true show of […]
- James Elkins, Empathy and Ends of Criticism
As I mentioned some five posts back, I’m well overdue in commenting on James Elkins’ talk at the University of Western Ontario in late January. His lecture ‘On Empathy and Related Concepts in Art Theory’ discussed an interesting working attempt of his to tackle a resurgence in theories of beauty and the imagination, and […]
