- The value of negative criticism
As far as talking points for a Monday go, one can do a lot worse than Edward Winkleman’s self-professed Quick-Cliche question this morning on the value of negative criticism as opposed to no criticism at all, a notion coincidentally yet sagely examined in Joanne Mattera’s highly useful Marketing Monday post for today. To quote Ed, […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
This month’s report of the James North Art Crawl is a little more truncated and a lot more late than usual (a shame given the scarcity of blogging around here lately in the first place… I know, my bad) on account of the post-Crawl exhaustion of helping out with two separate fundraising efforts that night […]
- 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 […]
- Are You With Me? McMaster’s SUMMA Exhibition
I’m a bit belated on delivering a well-due commentary on McMaster’s SUMMA exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art, given that I attended the opening reception almost two weeks ago now. As it was, the opening itself was so densely packed that a second viewing seemed very much in order, if only to pay respect […]
- Locked inside heart-shaped boxes
Upon eating the last Lindt truffle I received for Valentine’s Day, I found myself left with an empty, heart-shaped box. Red, naturally, with a cellophane window offering a tempting view of an empty gold tray complete with empty, heart-shaped wells where each truffle once sat in symmetry with each other before they fell victim […]
- Artists, work and the lack thereof
Edward Winkleman is currently playing host to an impromptu state-of-the-working-artist symposium over at his blog. I’ve already put in my two cents (somewhere around the point where participants are starting to getting delightfully snippy about class issues, bless), but would like to elaborate on the issue at hand: namely, what should artists be getting […]
- Barrie: The Rome of Ontario
Today is the last day of ‘Art and Cold Cash’ at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie before it ostensibly makes its way to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, which made my visit yesterday something of an eleventh-hour effort, snuck in as it was on the morning after a late-night birthday party. Or rather, the […]
- A Tale of Two Cities
Like many thinking-minded Hamiltonians of my generation, I’m not normally a reader of The Hamilton Spectator, but a cursory glance at today’s paper left open by my mother revealed a Wade Hemsworth article giving the cursory results of a recent study on Hamilton’s creative industries. Leaving aside the cheesy accompanying photo of Imperial Cotton […]
- *insert something clever here about bombs*
I actually don’t have many deep, long-winded comments regarding the debacle currently arising around Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson’s bomb hoax at the ROM but do want to be explicit about my choice of link on this subject, the Torontoist being one of a handful of media outlets actually explaining the nature of the art project that […]
