- Hey, who turned out all the lights?
On account of his book-signing tonight for How To Start and Run a Commercial Gallery (which I’m rather enjoying so far), Edward Winkleman limited today’s blog entry to a handful of juicy links. Two had already crossed my radar earlier this week but what really sent my eyebrow straight to the ceiling was this piece [...]
- On Monsters, or art in times of strife
I’m pretty sure summer is meant to be an easier and even sun-shinier time, but lately it seems as though my own view and everyone else’s has been one designed to reinforce how bloody hard it can be to make art happen. And now that the rain’s let up for two whole days in a [...]
- It’s Friday…
…and I’m once again heading northward to a rural patch of Ontario devoid of internet access, which is really something of a blessing. Before I hit the road, here’s a road trip far more expansive and engaging than the one I’m about to take up the 400: David Lynch’s Interview Project. The online documentary tracks [...]
- Glowering down on James North
Given that I woke up this morning musing on what I might find to blog about today (lest I suffer further admonishments from the big brother in Whitby), I should have been pleased to see a big shiny Spectator article laid open on the dining room table. Perhaps the problem was getting hit at my [...]
- Albert Alexanian appointed to OAC’s Board of Directors
I have to admit that there is something quite sweet about receiving blog-fodder via a medium that isn’t the internet, so naturally my little analogue heart was set a-flutter by receiving word that Albert Alexanian – Hamilton-based, carpet-and-flooring-mongering Albert Alexanian – has been appointed to the Board of the Ontario Arts Council via good old [...]
- Vacancy in the Hotel Hamilton
I’m fortunate to have a mother who still reads The Hamilton Spectator, as she does as good a job as an RSS feed whenever anything remotely art-related turns up in its pages, and today’s front-page pronouncement on the forthcoming conversion of the former Hotel Hamilton certainly qualifies. As per usual with bringing these articles to [...]
- James North Art Crawl: July
For the second month running, I’ve got another paid-writing deadline conflicting with my (unpaid, obviously) Art Crawl ritual, which accounts for this repeated lateness. It also probably explains the HTML markup that keeps sneaking into the in-progress Word document of my review for Sarah Anne Johnson’s House on Fire – maybe this multi-tasking rubbish isn’t [...]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: July
Hamilton Artists Inc: Niki Boghossian, Matthew Dayler and Andrew McPhail, suckerpunch Although this exhibition is a carry-over from last month’s Art Crawl, this is one of those shows that makes for enjoyable repeat viewing. I won’t be reviewing this for a third time, so to refresh your memories, my thoughts on the work are here [...]
- On “Being included in revised versions of art history”
Even after taking a lovely weekend off to mentally and physically reboot in the beer-and-barbeque laden crucible of a post-Canada Day weekend, I’ve come back to the internet to find that commentary around Jerry Saltz’s crusade to amend the scarcity of female artists in MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture collection is still going strong. Edward Winkleman [...]
- Thoughts on Honeybees
The same day I was in Toronto doing my last-minute viewing at MKG127, I also had the chance to catch Adrianne Rubenstein‘s first solo show at Board of Directors. I had previously viewed her earlier drawings in a group show at the same gallery and was appropriately blown away by her tangled compositions of colour-shifting [...]
