- ‘Age of Enlightenment’ now open at Kitchener’s Rotunda Gallery
The unfortunate case of the sniffles that plagued my Christmas and New Year’s Eve eased off just enough to make today’s task of installing my exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery manageable. In fact, between the pleasant drive through seldom-seen rural patches of southwestern Ontario and a hang that went as smooth as butter, I was […]
- 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 […]
- An Early Winter
Unnaturally dense fogs last Friday night prevented me from taking my usual tour of the James North Art Crawl, which has made the task of catching up on new exhibitions along the street a matter of small measures between much-needed hours in the studio. Thankfully, one of the more irregular installations for this month’s Crawl […]
- 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 […]
- Akimblog Hamilton: Supplement
This time last week, I was still dead to the world sleeping off one hell of a weird bout of jetlag, but in the fastest turnaround I’ve experienced since starting with Akimblog in 2008, my four-day marathon of Hamilton art viewing has been translated into something resembling the English language, duly edited and formatted, and […]
- Installation View: Leeds College of Art
In retrospect, I realize that my expectations of being able to blog with any regularity while traveling and installing an exhibition were a bit on the ambitious side. With the stress of Leeds and the lazy weekend hangover of Derbyshire left behind in favour of an uncharacteristically sunshiny day in Liverpool, I’m now better placed […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- Link: R.M. Vaughn Does Hamilton
Seeing as I’m continuing to favour the studio at the expense of this blog for the time being, it’s gratifying to see a few of Hamilton’s stronger summer exhibitions being given a critical once-over by R.M. Vaughn of The Globe and Mail. And for my part, I don’t even want to necessarily throttle him for […]
- 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 […]
