- 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). […]
- James North Art Crawl: April
While I had heard speculation through the week over whether Good Friday would impact attendance, this month’s Art Crawl still saw a healthy turn-out in the street and galleries, and just as well given that the range of exhibitions on offer was of a higher standard than I have seen in several months.
Elizabeth Chitty’s installation, […]
- ‘Not Quite How I Remember It’ at The Power Plant
I’m writing these impressions of The Power Plant’s summer show, Not Quite How I Remember It, from the other side of a somewhat fuzzy Canada Day weekend that stands as a handy temporal buffer between the moment of viewing the exhibition and my writing on it now - it’s a gesture that is either an […]
- James North Art Crawl: May
There may have been a problem with many of the exhibitions opening at this month’s Art Crawl, and I’m not entirely sure it’s a bad problem at that - there may simply have been too much art on the walls. Not to mention too many men wearing bad hats.
For instance, this proved to be the […]
- Ottawa Art in Two Hours or Less
By a certain spontaneous turn, I’ve ended up in our nation’s capital for the weekend, which has afforded me a couple spare hours between quality family time to peruse the happenings in the local art galleries. You may note the conspicuous absence of the National Art Gallery in my travels, but when time is […]
