- The most wonderful time of the year
I apologize for the lack of hardcore art action on this blog lately, as life in the wake of grant applications and launching towards Christmas has left me busy as a… well.
Stephanie Vegh, Age of Enlightenment (Rome: The Final Goal), 2009. Watercolour pencil on extracted book pages.
And while the idea of flying off to Rome […]
- The Big Picture Revisited Part Three: Engaging City Hall
My third and final post in this week’s series reporting on ‘The Big Picture Revisited’ addresses the discussion around Engaging City Hall. As this whole event was hosted by the City of Hamilton’s Arts Advisory Commission with the intention of forming an action plan within the means of municipal government, this was a topic that […]
- The Big Picture Revisited Part Two: Sustainability of Arts Organizations
Continuing from yesterday’s report on The Big Picture Revisited with a focus on Support for Individual Artists, today’s post will cover the forum’s discussion surrounding Sustainability of Arts Organizations.
In his introductory remarks on the topic, Ivan Jurakic cited an exceptional quality in the James North landscape that has intrigued me for some time now […]
- The Big Picture Revisted Part One: Support for Individual Artists
There’s something cruel in talking about artistic survival in Hamilton, particularly when the event kicks off at 9:30 in the morning and artists are made to mill about the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre dolefully slurping coffee and wondering why they’re awake, upright and wearing pants this early in the morning after an art crawl. […]
- The dubious value of art education
Now that we’re entering that time of year when various college and university art programs are cranking back into gear alongside their closed-for-August gallery counterparts (and the time of year when I’ll be reassessing my weekly schedule to include drop-ins at McMaster University’s senior-level art critiques on Thursdays), it seems fitting to have a think […]
- Labour Day Shenanigans: A Site-Specific Journey of Dubious Destination
In an effort to catch some of the Labour Day goings-on of the Cuban-Hamiltonian ReMix Institute Phase II, I set out yesterday morning, perhaps still a bit bleary around the edges from a quick weekend retreat to visit friends in the middle of nowhere, to Dundurn Castle and its rather expansive Park.
As I had attempted […]
- It’s Friday…
…and I’m once again heading northward to a rural patch of Ontario devoid of internet access, which is really something of a blessing.
Before I hit the road, here’s a road trip far more expansive and engaging than the one I’m about to take up the 400: David Lynch’s Interview Project. The online documentary tracks the […]
- Glowering down on James North
Given that I woke up this morning musing on what I might find to blog about today (lest I suffer further admonishments from the big brother in Whitby), I should have been pleased to see a big shiny Spectator article laid open on the dining room table. Perhaps the problem was getting hit at my […]
- Vacancy in the Hotel Hamilton
I’m fortunate to have a mother who still reads The Hamilton Spectator, as she does as good a job as an RSS feed whenever anything remotely art-related turns up in its pages, and today’s front-page pronouncement on the forthcoming conversion of the former Hotel Hamilton certainly qualifies. As per usual with bringing these articles to […]
- Can the Arts Save Hamilton?
It proved a funny question with which to frame Thursday night’s panel discussion at the Art Gallery of Hamilton: why ask if the arts can ’save’ Hamilton when it became readily apparent that everyone in the room already took the affirmative for granted? The more accurate shape of the debate - and there was debate […]
