- Muse Me: 2010 Summa Show at the McMaster Museum of Art
With another April comes another group of graduates from McMaster University’s undergraduate Studio Art program. This year’s exhibition boasts a website that I found useful mainly for putting names to familiar student faces and not much else, given that there’s far more pixel dimensions devoted to photos of the artists than images of their work, […]
- The best thing since stale bread
Not that I have anything against stale bread - on the contrary, David Rocco has imparted wonderful recipes that involve the use of stale Tuscan bread. But I’m already digressing on the first sentence.
David Rocco’s scrumptious panzanella
I had no pressing interest in driving into Toronto for the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s panel discussion this past Tuesday […]
- The 2010 Sobey Art Award Longlist
With spring blowing warm into my open studio door and bringing a fresh wave of bees and flies with it, it looks like it’s also time to kick off the slow march towards the 2010 Sobey Art Award with yesterday’s announcement (via Akimbo, anyway) of the longlist.
I took on the sport of trying to pick […]
- James North Art Crawl: April
I’m going to do my best to keep this one brief, particularly because the pickings were rather slim this month and a couple of the more interesting shows were held over from March anyway.
Which doesn’t mean they’re not worth seeing - Arounna Khounnoraj (above) and Emma Nishimura at The Print Studio in particular were perhaps […]
- The Regional Dialect
If there’s anything truly symptomatic of my stubborn Hamiltonianism, it’s my refusal to believe that Canadian art begins and ends at the borders of Toronto. Much of my critical writing has been bent towards proving that point by championing art activity not just in Hamilton, but in other regional centres that fall outside the predominant […]
- Recommended Reading: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith
While I’m not normally in the habit of making apologies on behalf of this blog’s frequency or lack thereof, I will be the first to admit I’ve been especially remiss lately. This would be down to a combination of overwork and an especially persistent cold; I’m hoping the latter clears off in time for a […]
