- Shoes on James Street North
It could be on account of my recent infatuation with the BBC’s new Sherlock miniseries, but my frazzled eyes have been more detail-obsessed than usual. Today, for instance, I stumbled to a halt while leaving my studio on account of this well-worn pair of Florsheim slip-on shoes neatly placed beneath one of those unfortunate street-trees […]
- 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 […]
- Become a Friend of McMaster Art History
Though I’ve been dialling back the blogging this month to better focus on my own studio work for a change, I’m happy enough to crawl out of my ink-splattered hibernation for a good cause, such as that brought to my attention by the inimitable Dr. Alison McQueen, Associate Professor of Art History at McMaster University, […]
- James North Art Crawl: July
Even with the relief of some much-needed rain on Friday morning, a summer Art Crawl is an inevitably humid affair. The galleries do their best to keep things tolerable with cold beer and hard-working fans but the best thing going is always the stack of curatorial statements and exhibition cards I tend to accumulate as […]
- Akimblog Hamilton now online
Firing off my Akimblog post to editor Terence Dick on Friday morning before driving up north to Parry Sound was one of the last things I can clearly remember of this past Canada Day weekend, which gives its appearance online this morning just as my hangover started to fade a rather lovely symmetry. Of a […]
- The Bigger Picture
Last night some eighty artists, cultural organizers, politicians and buskers converged upon the newly renovated City Hall for The Bigger Picture, a forum following up on last November’s The Big Picture Revisited at the Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre. Hosted by the Arts Advisory Commission for the City of Hamilton, the purpose of the evening […]
- New Hamilton-based Blogs
Having started this blog some two and a half years ago without much of a plan in mind, I’ve found myself covering a fairly sporadic mix of issues that arise from being a proud Hamiltonian with a vested interest in the artistic potential of this city. Politics, places and personalities all have their role in […]
- 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 […]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: The selective, self-interested edition
Among the many openings and events bound to make tomorrow night’s Art Crawl particularly brisk are a handful in which my participation was enough of a factor to ensure that I’ll still be out and about that night as usual instead of hosting my first open studio. For the truly curious, my iPhone documentation of […]
- James North Art Crawl: May
It could be the emergence of some truly decent weather the night of the Crawl, but the street was especially lively this month in particular. A greater part of that would also be owed to the higher concentration of buskers up and down James North - no doubt a lingering demonstration in the wake of […]
