- Friday Links: In Memoriam
The sad news first:
Mira Godard (1932-2010) (via Neurartic): Bucahrest-born art dealer and founder of the Art Dealers Association of Canada Mira Godard passed away in Toronto this past Monday. This news has only emerged earlier today via a short ADAC press release, but I trust the next few days will see the long and thorough […]
- New works added to Visual Portfolio
While the work itself remains in transit limbo from Hamilton to Leeds, I’ve taken a moment to add the drawings that will be featured in my exhibition at the Leeds College of Art & Design to the Visual Portfolio portion of this website.
The Delights of Porcelain, from Age of Enlightenment, 2009-2010. Watercolour pencil on book […]
- Off the Shelf: Alex Kapranos’ ‘Sound Bites’
I intend for this first installment of my new monthly book feature to reveal the sort of reading that has fed into my practice as an artist and writer, while respecting that this range of books is not necessarily limited to those that specifically address visual art. While visually appealing in its own way, Sound […]
- Friday Links: The Critical Edition
For the second week in a row, my selection seems to have favoured some manner of thematic continuity, this time around the art-critical voice online. Will this cohesion hold in future weeks, or is this all just a fluke? Only time will tell.
Henrietta Shore, Artichoke Pickers (Source: Art for a Change)
Blogging after not blogging (via […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- Friday Links
After a fun-yet-rigourous look at what relational aesthetics really look like, this week’s links run rather heavy on Damien Hirst, art world finances, and Damien Hirst. Funny how the two tend to go together.
(Source: stuckism.com)
The sort of relational aesthetics I can get behind: In the second of Art Fag City’s annual IMG MGMT series of […]
- Submit your Art for Supercrawl
Advertising calls for submission isn’t necessarily part of the new master plan for this blog, but the narrow timeline on this one calls for all the publicity possible. With a deadline of September 15, this is a great opportunity to showcase an exhibition-ready, outdoor-friendly work in this major Hamilton art event at the end of […]
- Friday Links
Which is more terrifying, Jeff Koons’ cartoon monkeys or Stephen Harper? We’ll let today’s links decide.
(Source: Neon Monster)
Jeff Koons Freaky-Monkey CT Scanner: While I’ve got to applaud the concept of making hospital visits less frightening for children, I wonder if the inescapable unpleasantness of being inside that thing is just going to make children fear […]
- Shoes on James Street North
It could be on account of my recent infatuation with the BBC’s new Sherlock miniseries, but my frazzled eyes have been more detail-obsessed than usual. Today, for instance, I stumbled to a halt while leaving my studio on account of this well-worn pair of Florsheim slip-on shoes neatly placed beneath one of those unfortunate street-trees […]
- And we’re back
As August has drawn to a close, so too has my studio-focused hiatus from this blog. While there are still preparations to be made for my show at the end of the month, I will otherwise be returning to my usual artist-writer duality now that September has kicked off the start of yet another art […]
