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  • Tomorrow: Art Museum Wager Resolved… oh, and Superbowl XLIV, too

    Come next week I expect to bring some meatier critical fare to the table, but in the meantime I have paid writing obligations that can’t afford to get sidelined by playing referee to excessive blog histrionics.
    So… how about that not-so-local sports team?
    Even though my play-off picks leading up to tomorrow’s Superbowl were ridiculously bad […]

  • Vital Donation Via Vital Africa

    The media invite for this morning’s launch event for the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Vital Africa year of exhibitions was sweetened by the dangling carrot of a donation announcement that drew a substantial crowd and mild speculations that proved essentially accurate. Frequent AGH benefactors Joey and Tony Tanenbaum already have a well-known history of bequests […]

  • Writing in the snow

    Despite this blog’s title, neither of the two links I’m about to throw out here have anything to do with writing your name in the snow by urinating, so if you’re looking for that, you’ll have to try somewhere else.
    But if you’re any sort of writer, and especially the sort of writer toiling away north […]

  • Three Reasons Why Power Brokers are Bad for Art

    Having just fallen under a sudden avalanche of task-mastering, today’s post has been outsourced to the wider wisdom of the internet: yes, it’s a links post. Let’s just pretend this is an episode of Connections, and hope the whirl of to-do’s settles in time for something profound come Friday.
    From CultureGrrl - “United We Serve”: Should […]

  • Picasso prints uncovered at McMaster Museum of Art

    As announced yesterday on McMaster University’s Daily News feed, a complete set of Pablo Picasso’s SueƱo y Mentira de Franco prints in their original case were recently discovered in the Museum’s archives by Adam Belovari, a fourth-year art history student assigned to research some of the lesser-known portions of the collections as a Humanities 3W03 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Albert Alexanian appointed to OAC’s Board of Directors

    I have to admit that there is something quite sweet about receiving blog-fodder via a medium that isn’t the internet, so naturally my little analogue heart was set a-flutter by receiving word that Albert Alexanian - Hamilton-based, carpet-and-flooring-mongering Albert Alexanian - has been appointed to the Board of the Ontario Arts Council via good old […]