- Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook friezes spared demolition
The local media has been quiet lately around the fate of Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook’s sculptural friezes on the ill-fated Federal Building in downtown Hamilton. From an immediate furore around their pending destruction at the hands of current owners Vrancor Group to eleventh-hour scrambles to block any demolition with a Heritage designation, this story received considerable […]
- James North Art Crawl: January
Considering that I was unable to review the last three Art Crawls, I can thoroughly sympathize with the spirit of hibernation that seemed to prevail during this month’s iteration of what is now a fully established fact of the Hamilton art scene. Perhaps that over-familiar routine is breeding complacent content and fatigue; more likely, my […]
- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2010
As I’ve done now for the past two years, I’m taking advantage of the lull afforded by the end of the holiday season and a lingering cold to reflect back upon the best of what Hamilton’s art scene had to offer in 2010.
While tracing back through the year’s exhibitions and events, I was gratified to […]
- The Beard
While I was taking an afternoon tea break and reading new Art21 Guest Blogger Victoria Gannon’s introductory post from California, I had something of a mental stutter when my steady downward scroll hit upon this image in the writer’s survey of soon-to-be-featured artists.
Gina Tuzzi, Silver and Gold (2000), 2009. Acrylic on paper. (Source: art21.org)
It’s spectacular […]
- An Early Winter
Unnaturally dense fogs last Friday night prevented me from taking my usual tour of the James North Art Crawl, which has made the task of catching up on new exhibitions along the street a matter of small measures between much-needed hours in the studio. Thankfully, one of the more irregular installations for this month’s Crawl […]
- Two weeks of British art tourism in a nutshell
My flight back from the UK only touched down at Pearson last night and my body still isn’t sure what time it is, so I don’t quite have the presence of mind to figure out how to blogify the excess of art I took in once I moved on from Leeds, especially while trying to […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
Even before this month’s Crawl kicked off, I had suspected it would be a busy one, and I wasn’t half-right about that one. It wouldn’t be any exaggeration to say this was easily the most successful instalment of the Crawl in recent years, for crowd and atmosphere as much as for the quality of the […]
- Gauthier and Ratcliffe in Cambridge
I chose this past Saturday for a long-overdue visit to Cambridge on account of the Printmaking Fair taking place at Cambridge Galleries‘ Design at Riverside space, but aside from a couple curious finds I didn’t see anything that especially rocked my world. Not one to waste an afternoon out, I made up the difference by […]
- 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 […]
