- Stendhaliance: From Mona Lisa to Asia Argento
I did warn last week that August can be a slow month for art, and with many of the other art blogs I frequent running at half-capacity as a result, there have been days that seem to do little but reinforce this seasonal disorder of ennui and downright exodus. This was perhaps most tellingly demonstrated […]
- On “Being included in revised versions of art history”
Even after taking a lovely weekend off to mentally and physically reboot in the beer-and-barbeque laden crucible of a post-Canada Day weekend, I’ve come back to the internet to find that commentary around Jerry Saltz’s crusade to amend the scarcity of female artists in MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture collection is still going strong. Edward Winkleman […]
- Smug gloating mitigated by a worthy cause
It’s been a busy week, so I had nearly forgotten that the shortlist for the Sobey Art Prize was due to be announced today until the results popped up on my RSS feed to View on Canadian Art (before they showed up on the Prize’s website, even, so good on Andrea Carson for that one). […]
- Matthew Varey’s Building on History
After the previous post on Allyson Mitchell’s Ladies Sasquatch, we’re moving right along to the McMaster Museum’s Panabaker Gallery and alumnus Matthew Varey’s exhibition Building on History, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with an essay by another McMaster alumnus, Gary Michael Dault.
And for anyone scratching their heads going “Wait, didn’t we talk about Matthew […]
- Allyson Mitchell’s Ladies Sasquatch
While there were two brilliant exhibitions of contemporary art opening this past Thursday at the McMaster Museum of Art, I’ve elected to dedicate a separate post to each rather than jam them together into some freaky hybrid of fun fur and oil paint. Consider this my attempt to make up for the lack of posts […]
- Toronto Winter Whirlwind
Time is tight these days, but necessity required a visit to Toronto to meet with the curator of Misplaced: Animals Lost and Found to figure out the where and how of installing my seventy-one drawings of rats playing in the ruins of Rome. The answer is likely magnets. When I figure out precisely how that […]
- Dion, dinosaurs and other findings in Toronto
The main purpose of my late-ish Friday trek into Toronto was to attend Mark Dion’s lecture at the ROM, but I did manage to arrive in the city early enough to squeeze in a belated visit to the Power Plant for their current roster of exhibitions, Stephen Shearer’s being the clear and deserved focal point […]
- *insert something clever here about bombs*
I actually don’t have many deep, long-winded comments regarding the debacle currently arising around Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson’s bomb hoax at the ROM but do want to be explicit about my choice of link on this subject, the Torontoist being one of a handful of media outlets actually explaining the nature of the art project that […]
