- Notes from the Front: Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche is the sort of thing that sounds good as a concept, because it sounds batshit insane. And I rather wish it had been as mad as all that, but in the epic battle against my numbing exhaustion, it didn’t stand a chance. Might have helped if there had been more zombies.
Jillian McDonald’s Zombies […]
- ‘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 […]
- Killing Time and Tuesdays on Queen West
An interesting point to bear in mind when an impromptu day trip into Toronto gives one time to drop into Toronto’s Queen West art district - many, many of these spaces seem to think the week starts on Wednesday. I’m well familiar with the notion of closed-on-Mondays in contemporary galleries, but Tuesday as well? Seriously, […]
- Simon Starling at the Power Plant (with a side-dish of Sadie)
I’m arriving somewhat late in the game on Simon Starling’s Cuttings (Supplement) at the Power Plant; the show has been open since the beginning of the month, but now that I’ve got a review that needs writing for the good people at MAP Magazine - presently on residency at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, […]
- James North Art Crawl: November
Compared to last month’s poorly attended affair, this month’s Art Crawl on James Street North was able to boast an increase in numbers milling through the various galleries. Much of this activity was crammed into the neighbouring spaces of James North Studio and You Me Gallery, who were collectively hosting a juried exhibition from […]
- (bizarre) triangle love
I’ve been embroiled tonight (and last weekend) in shortlisting meetings with the Hamilton Artists Inc. as part of an ongoing epic battle to reduce a field of ninety applications into some six-to-eight main exhibitions for 2009/2010. I’ll no doubt be commenting further on this in the very near future, but that’s a discussion best left […]
- Bringing the crawl back into the Art Crawl
This post is lagging somewhat behind last Friday’s James North Art Crawl here in Hamilton, but maybe I’m just a stickler for stylistic consistency.
Despite my Hammer-girl roots, this was my first time attending the monthly Art Crawl in Hamilton’s burgeoning James Street North artist community. Needless to say, I had been admonished on many […]
