- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2010
As I’ve done now for the past two years, I’m taking advantage of the lull afforded by the end of the holiday season and a lingering cold to reflect back upon the best of what Hamilton’s art scene had to offer in 2010.
While tracing back through the year’s exhibitions and events, I was gratified to […]
- Prizes for fleeting moments in time
When Daniel Barrow was announced the winner of this year’s Sobey Art Award, I didn’t bother to register any particular degree of surprise, even though he wasn’t my first choice to win (that being the spectacular Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby). As I freely admitted at the time of making my picks, I was […]
- 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 […]
- Off the Shelf: ‘The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture’
I was more than a little saddened this week to learn that Caprica, the prequel series to nouveau Battlestar Galactica and one of the few television shows to still hold my interest these days, has been cancelled by the short-sighted morons at SyFy. Therefore, this month’s Off the Shelf selection is in tribute to the […]
- 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 […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
Even before this month’s Crawl kicked off, I had suspected it would be a busy one, and I wasn’t half-right about that one. It wouldn’t be any exaggeration to say this was easily the most successful instalment of the Crawl in recent years, for crowd and atmosphere as much as for the quality of the […]
- 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 […]
