- 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 […]
