With another James North Art Crawl in the offing tonight - check out the listings at H Magazine for this month’s openings and events - I’m opting to keep today’s Friday Links brief and playful with a strong dose of entertaining video to offset your art writing highlights of the week.

‘Forty: The Sabres in the NHL’ at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (source: Buffalo News)

Leah Sandals finally gets the Cedar Tavern Singers: Like Sandals, I’ve only had a passing awareness of Cedar Tavern Singers (mostly from trying to figure who they were when they got longlisted for this year’s Sobey Art Award), but her newfound appreciation via their Mendal Art Gallery ditty is well founded. Just make sure you stop at her original blog post first to take in the brilliance of The Relational Aesthetics Song - “it doesn’t matter if you sing along, it’s just enough that you showed up.”

The value of playing in the studio: Another nicely even-handed post from Ed Winkleman reinforces the importance of the happy accidents that should be enjoyed and respected in even the most rigorous of studio processes. It’s tough advice to give without coming off like a total fluff-bunny, but Winkleman proves that play is indeed sensible when practiced in moderation.

Is a Buffalo Sabres retrospective at the Albright-Knox fair game?: Buffalo News art critic Colin Dabkowski reports on Forty: The Sabres in the NHL, an exhibition of sports photography and video celebrating the Buffalo Sabres that is drawing due criticism for its dubious status as a vanity show funded entirely by the NHL franchise.

The Shadow Machine: Wooster Collective shares footage of Jason Eppink’s analog projection of Muybridge plates depicting blacksmiths as installed in an abandoned New York subway tunnel. Simple, and simply gorgeous.

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