- A ghetto of words
I have a confession – I firmly believe that a large part of my recent lack of blogging activity is down not to being too busy to write, but too busy to read. This isn’t to say I haven’t been reading at all – that’s a habit I couldn’t break if I tried – but [...]
- Calling from Canada: The Great, White, Vacant North
I’ve been a regular reader of Art:21′s blog (affiliated with the PBS educational series, Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century) for quite a long while now, and was happy for the recent opportunity to contribute a post to their current Flash Points topic. Of the many art blogs I follow, Art:21 fosters the sort of academic [...]
- New Hamilton-based Blogs
Having started this blog some two and a half years ago without much of a plan in mind, I’ve found myself covering a fairly sporadic mix of issues that arise from being a proud Hamiltonian with a vested interest in the artistic potential of this city. Politics, places and personalities all have their role in [...]
- Saltz and the new definition of “dickish”
I’ve resisted commentary on the more prolific Jerry Saltz drama taking place these days on the grounds that any refutation of a critic’s reasoned argument that opens by calling said critic “dickish” is not worthy of intelligent consideration – although the underlying dickishness of the hollow discourse in itself is intelligently examined here. Instead, I’m [...]
- Honey vs. Oil: On Pedagogy in Art
While last week’s three-parter on The Big Picture Revisited revealed time and again that Hamilton sorely lacks a granting body for artists, that fact doesn’t save me from pending grant deadlines for both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. And yes, both anecdotal and statistical evidence from that forum showed quite plainly the [...]
- The value of negative criticism
As far as talking points for a Monday go, one can do a lot worse than Edward Winkleman’s self-professed Quick-Cliche question this morning on the value of negative criticism as opposed to no criticism at all, a notion coincidentally yet sagely examined in Joanne Mattera’s highly useful Marketing Monday post for today. To quote Ed, [...]
- On “Being included in revised versions of art history”
Even after taking a lovely weekend off to mentally and physically reboot in the beer-and-barbeque laden crucible of a post-Canada Day weekend, I’ve come back to the internet to find that commentary around Jerry Saltz’s crusade to amend the scarcity of female artists in MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture collection is still going strong. Edward Winkleman [...]
- Smug gloating mitigated by a worthy cause
It’s been a busy week, so I had nearly forgotten that the shortlist for the Sobey Art Prize was due to be announced today until the results popped up on my RSS feed to View on Canadian Art (before they showed up on the Prize’s website, even, so good on Andrea Carson for that one). [...]
