- Weekend Unlinked: Llama Llama Llama
I’m just about to hit the road for a weekend of visitation with my near and dear ones and the inevitable consumption of unseemly amounts of sushi to commemorate and promptly forget the fact that I’m one year older come Sunday. I’ll be back in Hamilton in time to raise a few mimosas with family, [...]
- Diamonds are a cynic’s best friend
I’ve become happily accustomed to agreeing with much of what The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones has to say about art. For example, I agree on the whole with the defence he mounts in favour of his standing assertion that Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God is an important work of art that accurately reflects the [...]
- Weekend Links: Degradation and Redemption
This weekend comes with three stories of artists thwarted by nature and law – some deservedly so. To chase down that triple-dose of schadenfreude, I’m also recommending a lengthy yet useful summary of a New York panel on how to make a living as an artist when you’re not otherwise busy wielding swords and implanting [...]
- James North Art Crawl: February
I’m tempted to apologize for the lateness of this month’s James North Art Crawl post, but the larger part of me – the part that believes form should follow content hooking up with the part of me made of spite – can’t help but find it fitting that my sluggish pace of blogging follows upon [...]
- Latest Akimblog Hamilton now online
While I continue to struggle to throw together some thoughts on last Friday’s largely inconsequential Art Crawl, I can at least offer to fill the void with my most recent Hamilton report for Akimblog, which went online this morning. Diane Landry, The Defibrillators, installation view (photo: Mike Lalich) Head over there now to read about [...]
- Weekend Links: The Rise and Fall of Representation
Unexpected blogligations yesterday prevented me from posting the Friday links on their eponymous day of the week, but let’s face it, this is more in a pure weekender spirit anyway. So go get geared up for that Valentine’s Day thingy with some art historical hot guys and vintage condoms on the side. Karl “Angsty Babe” [...]
- Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook friezes spared demolition
The local media has been quiet lately around the fate of Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook’s sculptural friezes on the ill-fated Federal Building in downtown Hamilton. From an immediate furore around their pending destruction at the hands of current owners Vrancor Group to eleventh-hour scrambles to block any demolition with a Heritage designation, this story received considerable [...]
- An evening with Vincent van Gogh
It was just over a week ago now that I tempted snowy fate to head down to McMaster University for Dr. Alison McQueen’s lecture, ‘An evening with Vincent van Gogh,’ the second of a public series of talks sponsored by the Friends of Art History at McMaster. Despite being one of those Friends (and I [...]
- Where art goes once it is born
I’ve been taxing my memory and the internet’s broad-yet-dubious selection of Vincent van Gogh images to prepare a post on Dr. Alison McQueen’s lecture last week for the Friends of Art History at McMaster, but in the meantime I’ve been more inclined to use my rare downtime for reading, especially now that I’ve come into [...]
- Friday Links: The International Edition
From Egypt to North Korea to a Google-sponsored tour of the world’s greatest galleries, this week’s links take a global view of art and antiquities and the preservation thereof. Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom, 1888, in ridiculous-awesome detail view (Source: Google Art Project) Egyptian Art and Revolution: As the protests in Egypt have progressed over [...]
