- 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 […]
- Muse Me: 2010 Summa Show at the McMaster Museum of Art
With another April comes another group of graduates from McMaster University’s undergraduate Studio Art program. This year’s exhibition boasts a website that I found useful mainly for putting names to familiar student faces and not much else, given that there’s far more pixel dimensions devoted to photos of the artists than images of their work, […]
- James North Art Crawl: April
I’m going to do my best to keep this one brief, particularly because the pickings were rather slim this month and a couple of the more interesting shows were held over from March anyway.
Which doesn’t mean they’re not worth seeing - Arounna Khounnoraj (above) and Emma Nishimura at The Print Studio in particular were perhaps […]
- Update: Sky Dragon Community Meeting
In the interests of viral proliferation, I’d like to throw down a quick update on the Sky Dragon Centre’s mission to save itself from foreclosure - and in turn, to save our arts community from the loss of a uniquely valuable institution among our number.
As promised, the people at Sky Dragon have announced a second […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
Despite the chilling sort of rain that half-tempted me to just stay in for the evening (to say nothing of a new episode of Caprica on Space), traffic at this month’s art crawl was going strong such that I spent the first twenty minutes circling the neighbourhood in search of parking. Great for the crawl, […]
- Sky Dragon Centre Facing Foreclosure
I hope to post my report on the James North Art Crawl later today, but before that I feel obliged to draw attention to some recent bad news that threatens to change the shape of Hamilton’s downtown arts community.
The Sky Dragon Community Development Co-operative at 27 King William has occupied a considerable niche in the […]
- Akimblog Hamliton Update
Just a quick heads-up to let you know that my latest Hamilton report for Akimbo (i.e. part of the reason my posting here has been non-existent this past week) is now available for your reading pleasure.
Matthew Walker, sketch for aural sculpture, 2009, charcoal on paper (photo: Matthew Walker.)
In addition to reviewing Matthew Walker’s one-night-only-save-for-the-night-I-snuck-in-after-the-fact installation […]
- Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene
Not for the first time, I’m going to let Art Fag City do the heavy lifting on this post while I try to get some real work done. They’ve been a bit busy this week too, but made up for reduced content with a lovely smorgasbord of links today, including a dip into the SFMOMA […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
One of the unspoken tensions of the Art Crawl is the extent to which the event revolves around spaces rather than their contents. There is a predictable assortment of galleries along the street that establish an art crawler’s routine more than the prospect of the art itself (if only because oftentimes the exhibitions are poorly […]
- Vital Donation Via Vital Africa
The media invite for this morning’s launch event for the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Vital Africa year of exhibitions was sweetened by the dangling carrot of a donation announcement that drew a substantial crowd and mild speculations that proved essentially accurate. Frequent AGH benefactors Joey and Tony Tanenbaum already have a well-known history of bequests […]
