- Weekend Links: In the face of adversity
In both the online art scene and the wider arena of the world, we have lived in interesting times this past week. In recognition of all these battles being fought, this weekend’s links document the hardships of war, nuclear meltdown and, coincidentally, the death of the white male masterpiece. Michael Fay, Lance Cpl. William “Kyle” [...]
- Family Histories and Luo Li at the 2011 Images Festival
I’ve recently been helping with the non-trivial task of sorting and downsizing my grandmother’s lifetimes-worth of personal possessions in preparation for her move to a retirement home next month. While it’s a melancholy and sometimes dusty sort of job, it’s also one that passes more pleasantly when the owner of all this detritus is still [...]
- Weekend Links: The Best of the Worst
With a slight delay to allow for post-St. Patrick’s recovery, this weekend’s links address some of the things that are so very wrong in the art world today – thankfully, with sometimes hilarious results. It’s like a bar where you don’t have to pay for drinks: Art Fag City shares the above video of Hennessy [...]
- James North Art Crawl: March
After a run of underwhelming Art Crawls, I went into this month’s iteration with an uncharacteristic swell of optimism, bolstered by the foreknowledge of interesting prospects on the horizon of spring. Thankfully, that instinct proved promising right off the top of the evening with my first visit to The Print Studio and Brendan Fernandes’ (buli). [...]
- Weekend Links: The Big Basics
With some timely posts and others throbbing along at a near-universal pace, this week’s links take art back down to its basics: why we do it, and how we pay the price in morality, courtesy and cold hard cash. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (Source: boingboing.net) Armory Week condensed to a single post: Many of the [...]
- Off the Shelf: The DIY artist book edition
I’ve been thinking a lot about artists’ books lately, from future possibilities in my own studio practice to the collection I’ve accrued to date and my wish that more of these beauties were being produced in my immediate creative orbit. Which brings me back around to that impulse to simply do it myself, but that’s [...]
- Weekend Links: The disjointed, sickly edition
The lack of legitimate blog content this past week is down to a tangled string of causes, from a bit of post-birthday downtime to meetings to planning and running a workshop within a ridiculously narrow timeframe. And that only took me as far as Wednesday, after which I was taken down by the sort of [...]
