- Simon Starling at the Power Plant (with a side-dish of Sadie)
I’m arriving somewhat late in the game on Simon Starling’s Cuttings (Supplement) at the Power Plant; the show has been open since the beginning of the month, but now that I’ve got a review that needs writing for the good people at MAP Magazine - presently on residency at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
Despite last week’s obnoxiously epic snow storm, the weather took a turn for the decidedly pleasant for last night’s art crawl, drawing out the sort of large, enthusiastic crowd I’ve been longing to see on this occasion ever since I moved back to Hamilton last summer. It takes more than a stretch of galleries […]
- 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 […]
- Ottawa Art in Two Hours or Less
By a certain spontaneous turn, I’ve ended up in our nation’s capital for the weekend, which has afforded me a couple spare hours between quality family time to peruse the happenings in the local art galleries. You may note the conspicuous absence of the National Art Gallery in my travels, but when time is […]
- David Altmejd and Andrea Rosen @ UWO
Treacherous driving aside, I managed to make the journey into London and the University of Western Ontario to see David Altmejd and Andrea Rosen give a joint slide talk/dialogue as part of the Visual Arts Department’s 40th anniversary do-dah. This seems to be an emerging trend at Western, as I was just there last […]
- Dion, dinosaurs and other findings in Toronto
The main purpose of my late-ish Friday trek into Toronto was to attend Mark Dion’s lecture at the ROM, but I did manage to arrive in the city early enough to squeeze in a belated visit to the Power Plant for their current roster of exhibitions, Stephen Shearer’s being the clear and deserved focal point […]
- Winter exhibitions opening this Friday
I’ll be showing with two seasonal group shows on the James North Art Crawl this Friday 14th December - sadly I won’t be able to attend the usual Art Crawl this month, this also being the season of familial festivities coming out the eyeballs, but I still encourage everyone else to come out to the […]
- The Rothko Room
I’m having a sick day of sorts, and as such decided to finally dig into the new novel I bought a few weeks back, The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis. As some of you may be aware, Thewlis is an actor first and foremost (artsy types might recall his Cannes-winning performance in […]
- Inaugural Post, or The End of Leather Wing-back Armchairs
Some weeks ago, I found myself at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario chasing up a possible job opportunity. I wasn’t hired, which gives me perfect license to have at this institution with perfect impunity, but as it happens I was largely impressed by the place. Despite being well off the beaten […]
