- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2010
As I’ve done now for the past two years, I’m taking advantage of the lull afforded by the end of the holiday season and a lingering cold to reflect back upon the best of what Hamilton’s art scene had to offer in 2010. While tracing back through the year’s exhibitions and events, I was gratified [...]
- Friday Links: Taking the silly with the bad
There’s rotten business about in both the United States and the United Kingdom these days, so while I feel obliged to link to the nitty gritty bits, I’ve attempted to lighten the mood with a couple downright silly art-world jokes. This is Friday, after all. Also, while my Top Five Hamilton Exhibitions of 2010 will [...]
- Friday Links: A Fire in My Belly
I’ve been following the controversy around the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and their removal of David Wojnarowicz’s video A Fire in My Belly from the critically acclaimed exhibition Hide/Seek with a stomach-churning mix of disgust at the repressive forces at work in American society and relief that I live in Canada. The fact that I [...]
- Prizes for fleeting moments in time
When Daniel Barrow was announced the winner of this year’s Sobey Art Award, I didn’t bother to register any particular degree of surprise, even though he wasn’t my first choice to win (that being the spectacular Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby). As I freely admitted at the time of making my picks, I was [...]
- Open Studio this Friday during Art Crawl
Though I’ve been happily occupying a studio space on James Street North since this past June, I haven’t done the done thing during Art Crawls and opened my door to the public. Part of that has been due to my preference for walking and reviewing the street’s other exhibitors for the benefit of this here [...]
