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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]