- Ghosts of exhibitions past and future
I’ve found lately that the challenge of maintaining this blog lately is not so much in the demands of a full-time occupation - rather, it’s in balancing that job with exhibition commitments inherited from my more flexible freelance days. When combined in recent months, the studio and the office achieved a critical mass that left […]
- Weekend Links: The value and values of art
Anyone reading this blog likely comes with the agreement that art has a value. The links this weekend explore how we come to determine that value, either in terms of credibility, money or action figures and video games.
Takashi Murakami as action figure by Mike Leavitt (Source: artinfo.com)
Are critics the best thing for art since artists?: […]
- Disclaimer: The Long Version
Anyone still visiting this blog despite its recent dearth of new content will notice a new addition in the sidebar in the form of a disclaimer. While my new role as Executive Director of the Hamilton Arts Council has made free blogging time hard to come by, I do intend to resume posting activities here […]
- Thinking outside the red box
Canada Post may still be on strike (emphasis on the “may” as the news indicates that a legislated end may be near) but artists in general aren’t anywhere near that organized and still have business to conduct. Visual artists at all stages of their careers answer calls for submissions from public galleries, artist-run centres and […]
- Loving the KWAG
First things first for my Canadian audience - if you haven’t yet done so, get your ass away from your computer and VOTE. Seriously, if you read this before you’ve voted you’ll make the ghost of Sir John A. MacDonald sob into his scotch. And if you really care about art, don’t vote Conservative but […]
- Idle hands and other essays
I won’t be writing a review of this month’s James North Art Crawl as per my usual practice for the simple reason that I wasn’t in attendance at last Friday’s event. Between the combination of exhibitions being carried over from March and others for which I have already attended openings in the weeks since then, […]
- And (art) chicks for free, no doubt
My traditional James North Art Crawl post is still in the works (who knew that cannelloni was such a time-consuming labour?) but as a consolation prize, I’d like to direct you to a real eye-opener of a post at Artworld Salon.
Jamie Oliver’s Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni.
In ‘Money for Nothing,’ London-based writer Ossian Ward reports on […]
- Professional Practice Postscript: On the spending and making of money
A lot of things about the explosion of debate around Vantage Art Projects’ Gatekeepers call continue to bother me. The tone of the discussion often ignored its own rationality in favour of kneejerk name-calling, and the lessons learned seem to be selective. Case in point: Vantage did show concern enough to revise the terms of […]
- Gatekeepers, Copyright and Curatorial Quandries
While there have been numerous developments as a consequence of Diana Poulsen’s criticism of Vantage Art Projects, I have been content to let Diana report those updates on her own follow-up post. Even at the expense of much dramatic name-calling and editorializing of certain actionable phrases, the value of the dialogue is clearly demonstrated in […]
- Professional Practice Bonus Feature (with props to Diana Poulsen)
Further to my ranting last Friday about the meanest basics of submitting one’s work to galleries and granting bodies, I’ve been wondering whether there might be a place on this blog for further anecdotes on career development for artists. While I’m still undecided on that count, I still can’t resist sharing another snarling pearl of […]
