- Akimblog Hamilton Update
My most recent Akimblog post for Hamilton is now online for your reading pleasure. As I mentioned on Monday, this month’s highlights include Tomer Diamant’s installation at the Royal Botanical Gardens - which unfortunately ended today, but there’s still plenty of time to check out the other exhibitions covered in my report.
Jesse Boles, Hot Mill, […]
- I blame Adrian Searle
Because it’s been four days since I wrapped up four days of commuting into Toronto for all the art fodder I could get my grubby paws on, and all I’ve got is a bad case of writer’s block. I’d rather have the t-shirt.
Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman at upArt Contemporary Art Fair
And while I could […]
- OMG PONIES!!!
For those who know me better than I’d like (i.e. close family and anyone I’ve slurred drunken 80s nostalgia at over the years), my appreciation for the following find in today’s Street Anatomy post will come as no surprise.
Yes, as someone who both played with My Little Pony toys as a child (way more fun […]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: March
Having devoted a fair chunk of time in the last couple weeks to helping The Print Studio rally together something resembling a marketing campaign - one of the joys of serving on the Board of Directors - I’ve become increasingly conscious of something that seems rather obvious in retrospect: the need for advance notice surrounding […]
- World AIDS Day Tribute Band
Although I’m following on from Martin’s post a week ago at anaba, this thread has its source in Michael Buitron. To quote him directly:
“I got an email from the Getty last week listing their activities for December, which included events in conjunction with World AIDS Day, December 1. After checking out some other L.A. museum’s […]
- Politics, updating, etc.
I wasn’t able to attend last night’s Town Hall meeting in Toronto to discuss the myriad pending cuts to cultural funding programs at the hands of the Conservative government, but an mp3 download of the meeting is available from the good people of the newly mobilized Department of Culture. You’ll also find a video clip […]
- Loose Threads
Two of my posts from this past month are now in need of a resolution as April draws to a close, neither of which warrants its own post, so consider this a two-for-one deal.
Firstly, some of you may have noticed that my first blog for Akimblog has now gone online. The post’s coverage of the […]
- The Condition (Not the Content) of Hamilton’s Art
Earlier this week, when Terence Dick invited me to join the contributors to Akimblog as a representative of the Hamilton art community, he did so with the caution that I would need to find a way of writing that would remain ‘different and distinct - yet somehow retain your breezy, intelligent, personable, and critical style.’ […]
- Notes from the Rift/Love is a Battlefield
I’ve intended to expand the content of this blog to include remarks on my own studio practice for some time now, most especially since remarking on Kristen Peterson’s approach to documenting her work and the ways in which access to an artist’s practical concerns can help to demystify the process of art-making and hopefully start […]
- Intentionality and the Internet
I’m sure a fair few of my Canadian readers are familiar with Akimbo - and quite possibly, like myself, enjoy their daily deluge of email notices clogging up their inboxes with show invites and calls for submission in far too great a number to be truly useful. I think it’s a true show of […]
