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  • The Beard

    While I was taking an afternoon tea break and reading new Art21 Guest Blogger Victoria Gannon’s introductory post from California, I had something of a mental stutter when my steady downward scroll hit upon this image in the writer’s survey of soon-to-be-featured artists.

    Gina Tuzzi, Silver and Gold (2000), 2009. Acrylic on paper. (Source: art21.org)
    It’s spectacular […]

  • Review Recycling: David Hoffos at MOCCA

    While I gouged away this past couple days at an effort to condense Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 into a 750 word review for the good folks at MAP Magazine, I couldn’t help but think back wistfully on the far easier task I would have had if I were reviewing David Hoffos’ current exhibition […]

  • 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 […]

  • Akimblog Hamilton now online

    Firing off my Akimblog post to editor Terence Dick on Friday morning before driving up north to Parry Sound was one of the last things I can clearly remember of this past Canada Day weekend, which gives its appearance online this morning just as my hangover started to fade a rather lovely symmetry. Of a […]

  • The Real Sobey Shortlist Announced

    Knowing that my chances of guessing as well as I did in 2009 were pretty damn slim, I wasn’t terribly surprised to see that the proper, jury-selected Sobey Art Award Shortlist is not the exact mimic of my personal dork-motivated picks. Only two of my selections - Brendan Fernandes for Ontario, and Emily Vey Duke […]

  • Gauthier and Ratcliffe in Cambridge

    I chose this past Saturday for a long-overdue visit to Cambridge on account of the Printmaking Fair taking place at Cambridge Galleries‘ Design at Riverside space, but aside from a couple curious finds I didn’t see anything that especially rocked my world. Not one to waste an afternoon out, I made up the difference by […]