- Akimblog Hamilton now online
After what feels like a long absence, I had a great time getting back into Akimblog with another Hamilton report that has now been posted for your reading pleasure. Included in this month’s round-up are quite a few stand-outs from James North this month - Jeff Nye at Hamilton Artists Inc., From the Ground Up […]
- James North Art Crawl: A June Observation
While I can’t claim to have done so with perfect consistency, I have been attending and writing coverage of the James North Art Crawl since October 2007. Looking back on that first distant report from the days when Hamilton Artists Inc. was on Colbourne and I was, amazingly, even more jaded than I am today […]
- James North Art Crawl: May
Because this month’s Art Crawl review is longer than most, I won’t go on at length with any preamble except to say that something really peaked this time around - not only in the number of venues to take in, but also in the overall quality of work to be enjoyed. As ever, discussing it […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
After a run of underwhelming Art Crawls, I went into this month’s iteration with an uncharacteristic swell of optimism, bolstered by the foreknowledge of interesting prospects on the horizon of spring. Thankfully, that instinct proved promising right off the top of the evening with my first visit to The Print Studio and Brendan Fernandes’ (buli).
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- James North Art Crawl: February
I’m tempted to apologize for the lateness of this month’s James North Art Crawl post, but the larger part of me - the part that believes form should follow content hooking up with the part of me made of spite - can’t help but find it fitting that my sluggish pace of blogging follows upon […]
- James North Art Crawl: January
Considering that I was unable to review the last three Art Crawls, I can thoroughly sympathize with the spirit of hibernation that seemed to prevail during this month’s iteration of what is now a fully established fact of the Hamilton art scene. Perhaps that over-familiar routine is breeding complacent content and fatigue; more likely, my […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
