- ‘A Field Guide to Observing Art’ at McMaster
After a series of delays and hints over the past week or so on this blog, I’m glad to finally have a sufficient window of opportunity to say a few things about A Field Guide to Observing Art at the McMaster Museum of Art. While I’ve already commented in passing on this exhibition’s value as [...]
- A postscript (and continuation) on the dubious value of art education
The conversation around art education that got rolling last week among various blogs including this one has picked up a further thread courtesy of Gabrielle Moser, who is herself just starting a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at York alongside those same contentious studio-based PhD candidates. As someone with an insider’s view on [...]
- The dubious value of art education
Now that we’re entering that time of year when various college and university art programs are cranking back into gear alongside their closed-for-August gallery counterparts (and the time of year when I’ll be reassessing my weekly schedule to include drop-ins at McMaster University’s senior-level art critiques on Thursdays), it seems fitting to have a think [...]
- James North Art Crawl: September
No matter one’s ties to any sort of educational context, September continues to hold something in the way of new beginnings, especially after the cyclical languor of August. In that spirit, this month’s Art Crawl offered a portend of change to come with a one-night open house of the former Hotel Hamilton, currently being renovated [...]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: September
After a lazy summer, the Art Crawl is kicking back like it means it (and I really hope it does) with a slurry of projects from the Red Tree Collective’s ReMix Institute Phase II. Elements of this exchange project between Hamilton and Cuban-based artists will be in evidence all along the crawl, starting with a [...]
- Labour Day Shenanigans: A Site-Specific Journey of Dubious Destination
In an effort to catch some of the Labour Day goings-on of the Cuban-Hamiltonian ReMix Institute Phase II, I set out yesterday morning, perhaps still a bit bleary around the edges from a quick weekend retreat to visit friends in the middle of nowhere, to Dundurn Castle and its rather expansive Park. As I had [...]
- Three Reasons Why Power Brokers are Bad for Art
Having just fallen under a sudden avalanche of task-mastering, today’s post has been outsourced to the wider wisdom of the internet: yes, it’s a links post. Let’s just pretend this is an episode of Connections, and hope the whirl of to-do’s settles in time for something profound come Friday. From CultureGrrl – “United We Serve”: [...]
