- James North Art Crawl: February
One of the unspoken tensions of the Art Crawl is the extent to which the event revolves around spaces rather than their contents. There is a predictable assortment of galleries along the street that establish an art crawler’s routine more than the prospect of the art itself (if only because oftentimes the exhibitions are poorly […]
- 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 […]
- James North Art Crawl: January
As I was pulling together my thoughts on this month’s uneven exhibition efforts and not-entirely-pleasant cold, I finally recalled that I have no basis for comparison to last year’s January Crawl. This time last year, I’d been in Toronto for the opening of Misplaced: Animals Lost and Found at XPACE, in which I was showing […]
- “Its four in the morning, the end of December.”
While last minute knitting, baking and painting prevented me from saying so any sooner, I do hope everyone had a fun and happy holiday, and that the hangover fades in plenty of time to ring in 2010.
Twenty-two Veghs vs. Cheese Santa. I think Santa lost.
While I’m typically slack at posting this time of year, […]
- Steve Mazza: Unnatural Selection
I’m sure there’s a comment to be made upon the fact that I had to drive out to Cambridge to see a solo installation by a Hamilton artist the likes of which I can’t imagine having ever happened in the city itself. But it’s Friday and a week before Christmas, so I’d rather be charitable […]
- James North Art Crawl: December
I am hopeful that with the New Year will come a solution for how I handle future instalments of the James North Art Crawl on this blog. In truth, I scarcely handled it at all last month save for some passing remarks in my report on The Big Picture Revisited on the sustainability of this […]
- August at transit Gallery
August is a slow month for art, as much in Hamilton as anywhere. With many galleries closed for this month, the sure-fire options for good art-viewing are scarce; thankfully, transit Gallery has mounted a solid group exhibition for the summer, providing some refuge for those keen to ogle some art on those unexpected yet obnoxiously […]
- On Monsters, or art in times of strife
I’m pretty sure summer is meant to be an easier and even sun-shinier time, but lately it seems as though my own view and everyone else’s has been one designed to reinforce how bloody hard it can be to make art happen. And now that the rain’s let up for two whole days in a […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
This month’s report of the James North Art Crawl is a little more truncated and a lot more late than usual (a shame given the scarcity of blogging around here lately in the first place… I know, my bad) on account of the post-Crawl exhaustion of helping out with two separate fundraising efforts that night […]
- Allyson Mitchell Talks Sasquatches
Having already seen Allyson Mitchell say a few choice words at the opening of her Ladies Sasquatch exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art back in January, I knew her Artist Talk would be an event well worth witnessing - she’s easily one of the most open, droll and downright hilarious artists I’ve heard speak […]
