- The 2011 Sobey Art Award Shortlist
Last week I attempted to make up for the lack of my usual region-by-region breakdown of the Sobey Art Award Long List by taking a closer look at the Ontario Long List currently on show at Oakville Galleries Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens. The confluence of those five Ontario-based artists revealed a taut commonality of […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
After a run of underwhelming Art Crawls, I went into this month’s iteration with an uncharacteristic swell of optimism, bolstered by the foreknowledge of interesting prospects on the horizon of spring. Thankfully, that instinct proved promising right off the top of the evening with my first visit to The Print Studio and Brendan Fernandes’ (buli).
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- 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 […]
- Prizes for fleeting moments in time
When Daniel Barrow was announced the winner of this year’s Sobey Art Award, I didn’t bother to register any particular degree of surprise, even though he wasn’t my first choice to win (that being the spectacular Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby). As I freely admitted at the time of making my picks, I was […]
- 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 […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
For reasons of chronology and convenience, Loose Canon has tended to round up the latter end of my monthly art crawl coverage - it’s just where I tend to go last, and that proved a good strategy as I got to save the best for last. I’ve already had opportunity to sing the praises of […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
This blog entry owes something of a debt to the cold medication that’s been working to keep me relatively lucid through the better part of this week as well as the weekend’s ragged aftermath of having attended the Art Crawl in this condition. I probably would have given this month’s Crawl a pass, save for […]
- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2008
This past year, and the fact of its ending very, very soon, affords me a perspective I didn’t have at this time last year - 2008 is the first calendar year in which I have had the privilege of watching Hamilton’s ever-growing art scene from January to December (didn’t even get half that in 2007) […]
- James North Art Crawl: June
When I set out in spite of spotty weather to take in this month’s Art Crawl, it was largely on account of the fact that the night featured the last of the New Harbours series of performances at Christ’s Church Cathedral. The sudden thunderstorm certainly made an extended stay in the Cathedral an attractive prospect, […]
- 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 […]
