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  • The 2010 Sobey Art Award Longlist

    With spring blowing warm into my open studio door and bringing a fresh wave of bees and flies with it, it looks like it’s also time to kick off the slow march towards the 2010 Sobey Art Award with yesterday’s announcement (via Akimbo, anyway) of the longlist.
    I took on the sport of trying to pick […]

  • The Regional Dialect

    If there’s anything truly symptomatic of my stubborn Hamiltonianism, it’s my refusal to believe that Canadian art begins and ends at the borders of Toronto. Much of my critical writing has been bent towards proving that point by championing art activity not just in Hamilton, but in other regional centres that fall outside the predominant […]

  • Steve Mazza: Unnatural Selection

    I’m sure there’s a comment to be made upon the fact that I had to drive out to Cambridge to see a solo installation by a Hamilton artist the likes of which I can’t imagine having ever happened in the city itself. But it’s Friday and a week before Christmas, so I’d rather be charitable […]

  • Art Toronto 2009 Preview

    I’ve attended the Toronto International Art Fair in some capacity or another ever since my return to Canada in 2007, though most frequently at the behest of MAP Magazine back in Scotland. And while I’m grateful that the magazine isn’t participating in this year’s fair, the affiliation still allowed me the dubious privilege of grabbing […]

  • Thoughts on Honeybees

    The same day I was in Toronto doing my last-minute viewing at MKG127, I also had the chance to catch Adrianne Rubenstein’s first solo show at Board of Directors. I had previously viewed her earlier drawings in a group show at the same gallery and was appropriately blown away by her tangled compositions of colour-shifting […]

  • Survival and the Seventies at MKG127

    I’m grateful June is almost over as this whole month has been the death of good intentions, one of which was to go see I Can’t Stop This Feeling: Crisis, Comfort and Craft at MKG 127. Of course, this exhibition closes June 27 and while I will be in Toronto tomorrow, it’ll be to watch […]