- Friday Links: Where education and entertainment battle it out for supremacy
This week is a real mixed bag of horizon-expanding moments in art – some of which may lead to greater understanding, others that slide down the greasy rabbit hole of utter nonsense. I’ll leave you to draw those distinctions for yourself. Nothing says NFL Football like Renoir’s Bathers with Crab (c. 1890-1899, oil on canvas) [...]
- Meryl McMaster at MacLaren Art Gallery
Since some of my dearest friends now live and work in the environs of Barrie, Ontario, I tend to take advantage of that long-ish drive up the 400 to stop at the MacLaren Art Gallery during my visits. It’s the sort of regional space that deserves wider recognition for both its strong programming of contemporary [...]
- Friday Links: Dreams and Fairytales
Hopes, aspirations and just plain delusional bullshit are the flavour of the week with today’s Friday Links. Francesca Woodman (Source: utata.org) Is a Toronto Biennial on the horizon?: After a recent complaint about promises unkempt by MOCCA and The Power Plant, Leah Sandals reports that the two organizations have finally released a PDF report on [...]
- James North Art Crawl: January
Considering that I was unable to review the last three Art Crawls, I can thoroughly sympathize with the spirit of hibernation that seemed to prevail during this month’s iteration of what is now a fully established fact of the Hamilton art scene. Perhaps that over-familiar routine is breeding complacent content and fatigue; more likely, my [...]
- Friday Links: Otherwhere
I’ve had a busy week catching up on various applications now that my Rotunda Gallery show is up and running, so apologies that links are all you’re getting for now. However, it’s also Art Crawl night in the Hammer, which means I’ll be back Monday with my first James North review since September – pending [...]
- Friday/Weekend Links: beating a hollow drum
For the second time, these links are coming a day later than the Friday I usually bear in mind as my self-enforced deadline, making me wonder whether “Weekend Links” would be a more prudent label for this feature, or just an excuse to get lazy. We’ll try to stick to Friday Links for now. An [...]
- Ernest Daetwyler’s Reality in Reverse [barn raising]
Because yesterday’s installation at the Rotunda went so smoothly, I had all sorts of free time left to drop by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery to finally see their two current exhibitions before they close at this weekend. Though I walked in full of eagerness to see the retro-tech antics promised by sciencefictionsciencefair (which I’ll get [...]
- ‘Age of Enlightenment’ now open at Kitchener’s Rotunda Gallery
The unfortunate case of the sniffles that plagued my Christmas and New Year’s Eve eased off just enough to make today’s task of installing my exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery manageable. In fact, between the pleasant drive through seldom-seen rural patches of southwestern Ontario and a hang that went as smooth as butter, I was [...]
