- 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 […]
- Weekend Unlinked: Llama Llama Llama
I’m just about to hit the road for a weekend of visitation with my near and dear ones and the inevitable consumption of unseemly amounts of sushi to commemorate and promptly forget the fact that I’m one year older come Sunday. I’ll be back in Hamilton in time to raise a few mimosas with family, […]
- The Archive and Everyday Life: A Visual Arts Guide
This weekend, McMaster University’s Department of English & Cultural Studies is hosting The Archive and Everyday Life, a conference that promises to bring high humanities studies down to earth for a close look at the commonplace. This merging of disciplines means that there will be several related openings and events at McMaster and on James […]
- White cats and black humour: suicide as farce
Among my less-than-glowing observations of this month’s Art Crawl, few have lingered in my mind the last few days save for a comment left on the post by a fellow art crawler who took issue with Laura Paolini’s exhibition Hello, Schrodinger? at Hamilton Artists Inc. My preoccupation is certainly not with his negative impression of […]
- Stendhaliance: From Mona Lisa to Asia Argento
I did warn last week that August can be a slow month for art, and with many of the other art blogs I frequent running at half-capacity as a result, there have been days that seem to do little but reinforce this seasonal disorder of ennui and downright exodus. This was perhaps most tellingly demonstrated […]
