- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2008
This past year, and the fact of its ending very, very soon, affords me a perspective I didn’t have at this time last year - 2008 is the first calendar year in which I have had the privilege of watching Hamilton’s ever-growing art scene from January to December (didn’t even get half that in 2007) […]
- A Drink To Us on Christmas Eve
My secular views on Christmas tend to distill the entire occasion down to two points above all others: the giving of gifts and the imbibing of various spirits. And given my fondness of Scotch whisky, the evocative fruits of David Dymant’s Glenfiddich Residency seemed the ideal work to highlight a couple drinks into a quiet […]
- Toronto Winter Whirlwind
Time is tight these days, but necessity required a visit to Toronto to meet with the curator of Misplaced: Animals Lost and Found to figure out the where and how of installing my seventy-one drawings of rats playing in the ruins of Rome. The answer is likely magnets. When I figure out precisely how that […]
- Coalition and Shiny Clockwork Robots
Being the selectively political animal I am, my own impressions of the current coalition furor are of a more ambivalent sort than the unilateral tone of elation from my compatriots over at the Department of Culture, who take this move as a victory for their cause: as is their right and responsibility as political activists. […]
- World AIDS Day Tribute Band
Although I’m following on from Martin’s post a week ago at anaba, this thread has its source in Michael Buitron. To quote him directly:
“I got an email from the Getty last week listing their activities for December, which included events in conjunction with World AIDS Day, December 1. After checking out some other L.A. museum’s […]
