- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2009
When I spontaneously decided to compile a Top Five of Hamilton art events and exhibitions last year, the job practically happened on its own - 2008 was a promising year full of unexpected things in wonderful places, from Christ’s Church Cathedral to Cootes Paradise to 270 Sherman. There was a forward momentum that I had […]
- Time, and where it goes
I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions - happy enough with my weight, like my bad habits exactly where they are - but this remains a reflective time of year well suited to self-scrutiny.
One of the more useful books I read this past year was Jackie Battenfield’s indispensably practical The Artist’s Guide: How To […]
- “Its four in the morning, the end of December.”
While last minute knitting, baking and painting prevented me from saying so any sooner, I do hope everyone had a fun and happy holiday, and that the hangover fades in plenty of time to ring in 2010.
Twenty-two Veghs vs. Cheese Santa. I think Santa lost.
While I’m typically slack at posting this time of year, […]
- Steve Mazza: Unnatural Selection
I’m sure there’s a comment to be made upon the fact that I had to drive out to Cambridge to see a solo installation by a Hamilton artist the likes of which I can’t imagine having ever happened in the city itself. But it’s Friday and a week before Christmas, so I’d rather be charitable […]
- Writing in the snow
Despite this blog’s title, neither of the two links I’m about to throw out here have anything to do with writing your name in the snow by urinating, so if you’re looking for that, you’ll have to try somewhere else.
But if you’re any sort of writer, and especially the sort of writer toiling away north […]
- James North Art Crawl: December
I am hopeful that with the New Year will come a solution for how I handle future instalments of the James North Art Crawl on this blog. In truth, I scarcely handled it at all last month save for some passing remarks in my report on The Big Picture Revisited on the sustainability of this […]
- The most wonderful time of the year
I apologize for the lack of hardcore art action on this blog lately, as life in the wake of grant applications and launching towards Christmas has left me busy as a… well.
Stephanie Vegh, Age of Enlightenment (Rome: The Final Goal), 2009. Watercolour pencil on extracted book pages.
And while the idea of flying off to Rome […]
