- Saying what we already knew (now with numbers!)
Nothing quite brightens my day like a tidy, official report reminding me not only of how utterly dirt-poor I am, but also that I’m far from exceptional in this regard. And yes, apparently it’s that grim but all the same I believe Michael Maranda (assistant curator at the Art Gallery of York University) has done […]
- Website Updates
It’s really quite amazing the things one can get done when house-bound by a demanding (albeit freakishly adorable) new puppy. Even if he does periodically gnaw at the corners of my MacBook Pro and slam his paws on the keys.
In short, with or without Brodie’s help I’ve finally tackled the long overdue task of […]
- Don’t let the kitten fool you, this man is scum
Like many people, seeing Stephen Harper’s face in the paper can turn my stomach disgust at the best of times, but having to read about his latest jack-assery against the arts while I’m still on my first coffee of the day is really too much. The sheer ignorance of his latest attempt to annex the […]
- The end of PromArt, but not the end itself
August is, without doubt, the sleepiest month on the art calendar, when many galleries shut their doors and artists seem to vanish off the map until after Labour Day. Perhaps the Harper government was counting on that malaise to offset any furore over their plans to axe PromArt funding of Canadian arts abroad.
Stephen Harper: Feel […]
- How to Review Toronto’s Art Scene in One Day or Less
While the pace of life slows for some in these lazy summer months, I’ve found myself so strapped for time that my only option for taking an overview of Toronto’s present art activity for an upcoming MAP Magazine article was to do all my gallery-going in the space of a single day. Several days after […]
- Artist employment and other rant-worthy enterprises
The question of employment in contemporary art has been an especially weighty one from a personal standpoint ever since I was handed my shiny MFA degree in some especially gorgeous hall of the University of Glasgow. Like many other self-proclaimed ‘artists’, I am woefully underemployed and am therefore none too picky about where I find […]
- Why roller girls rock my world
When I first moved back to Hamilton last August, I underwent a fairly predictable lull in studio productivity - too much time unpacking and reassessing, not enough time to let new ideas come to the fore given the change in setting. Fortunately, a few weeks into my return to Canadian soil, I also went to […]
- Artists, work and the lack thereof
Edward Winkleman is currently playing host to an impromptu state-of-the-working-artist symposium over at his blog. I’ve already put in my two cents (somewhere around the point where participants are starting to getting delightfully snippy about class issues, bless), but would like to elaborate on the issue at hand: namely, what should artists be getting […]
