- Design Annex arrives on James North
After much anticipation – and a few sneaky sniffs around the premises late last week – I attended the first of this week’s opening previews to welcome the Art Gallery of Hamilton‘s new Design Annex to James Street North. Photo: Mike Lalich The completion of this new shop and event space brings a dramatic transformation [...]
- But what did you REALLY think about the City of Hamilton Arts Awards?
The City of Hamilton Arts Awards were a welcome development on the Hamilton arts scene earlier this year but they were not without visible flaws in the works, as I explained in detail both before and after the fact. That latter post precipitated a few informal conversations after the fact but I was otherwise disappointed [...]
- TOMORROW: Supercrawl Artist Info Night
In the interests of boosting the signal as a member of the Supercrawl Curatorial Committee, I’m co-opting my digital soapbox to remind folks in my local arts community of an upcoming opportunity for art installations at this year’s Supercrawl. For those interested in presenting a site-specific project at this year’s event in September, the information [...]
- City of Hamilton Arts Awards
Despite my reservations about the nominations process, I attended the City of Hamilton Arts Awards this past Monday with an uncharacteristic degree of optimism, assured that the “sold-out” status of free tickets for the event and the unique venue would guarantee a bustling, energetic night for the arts community. Sure enough, attendance at the Awards [...]
- Family Histories and Luo Li at the 2011 Images Festival
I’ve recently been helping with the non-trivial task of sorting and downsizing my grandmother’s lifetimes-worth of personal possessions in preparation for her move to a retirement home next month. While it’s a melancholy and sometimes dusty sort of job, it’s also one that passes more pleasantly when the owner of all this detritus is still [...]
- 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 [...]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: The selective, self-interested edition
Among the many openings and events bound to make tomorrow night’s Art Crawl particularly brisk are a handful in which my participation was enough of a factor to ensure that I’ll still be out and about that night as usual instead of hosting my first open studio. For the truly curious, my iPhone documentation of [...]
