- An open letter on Hamilton’s post-steel future
Partway through this lovely Victoria Day weekend, I received an email from an associate producer of The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO. Besides feeling relief at knowing I wasn’t the only person using the May Two-Four to catch up on work, I was pleased to learn that The Agenda will be hosting a panel [...]
- James North Art Crawl: May
This month’s Art Crawl got off to an earlier-than-usual start on account of my involvement in The Print Studio’s newly launched membership campaign, complete with last minute task-wrangling and free crantinis, the latter of which provided a temporary respite from the surprisingly humid weather. Not-raining was a lovely surprise, but it made sweaty work of [...]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: May
The Print Studio: Yoshiko Shimada, Bones in Tansu: Family Secrets The second exhibition in The Print Studio’s On Surface series features artist-in-residence Yoshiko Shimada visiting from Japan with her on-going project archiving and displaying anonymously gathered secrets in locally sourced dresser drawers, with space provided for visitors to contribute their own secrets to future installations. [...]
- Smug gloating mitigated by a worthy cause
It’s been a busy week, so I had nearly forgotten that the shortlist for the Sobey Art Prize was due to be announced today until the results popped up on my RSS feed to View on Canadian Art (before they showed up on the Prize’s website, even, so good on Andrea Carson for that one). [...]




