- Off the Shelf: Climbing the Cold White Peaks
It’s been quite a while since I’ve turned up with one of those book-review type things I once optimistically promised to do around here once a month (the last being this look at various lo-fi artist books in my collection), and this overdue instalment is already breaking my ground rules in that this book did […]
- 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 […]
- Become a Friend of McMaster Art History
Though I’ve been dialling back the blogging this month to better focus on my own studio work for a change, I’m happy enough to crawl out of my ink-splattered hibernation for a good cause, such as that brought to my attention by the inimitable Dr. Alison McQueen, Associate Professor of Art History at McMaster University, […]
- Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010
After spending most of the last two days in my new studio on James North, there is something truly bittersweet and sad about coming back home tonight to learn that Louise Bourgeois, that veritable grand dame of contemporary art, has passed away today at the age of 98 in Manhattan.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois, 1982 (pictured […]
- Link: Picasso as Porn Star
I’ve often maintained that it takes a certain colloquialism - not to mention a willingness to ease off some of the sexier phrases one learns at art school - to get the general public engaged in critical art dialogues. There’s merit to be had in bringing art down to a universal level, and clearly Howard […]
