- Weekend Links: The quiet confidence of craftsmanship
This could be the revelation of some brilliant draftsmanship in exhibitions close to home this month, or the melancholy of having packed up my James North studio this weekend, but my first Weekend Links of 2012 is less issues-driven and more redolent with the high notes of art well made. From anonymous paper sculpture to [...]
- 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 [...]
- Weekend Links: Site-specific
The new job makes for less time to invest in my usual blogging activities, so this weekend’s links round up a few highlights from recent days as well as a few older yet resonant reads on the knowing (and not-knowing) of particular places. The desolate melancholy of the U.S.S. Enterprise sickbay (Source: spacetrek.tumblr.com) Space: The [...]
- Weekend Links: Little Big Cremaster!
It’s not so much that there weren’t newsworthy things to be read in the arts blogosphere this week – if you’re here for the serious, you could always check out Hyperallergic’s round-up of Ai Weiwei updates or this nifty Art Fag City contemplation of art’s spiritual side, but this heat-wave we’ve suffered through this week [...]
- Weekend Links: Art and Life
Sometimes the realities of everyday life can get in the way of both art and blogging about art. This past week, it’s been the reality of a new job that has kept me busy – more on that one later – but what I can offer is another weekend of reading and seeing around the [...]
- Weekend Links: Hey, C-Rock
Well, I say Weekend Links but that’s a lie this weekend. It’s high time I hit the road to where the northern Ontario wilderness and beer beckon, so let me leave you this Canada Day weekend with a stirring tribute from one William Shatner, winner of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Weekend Links: The Summer of our Disconnect
The art world was delighted to see Ai Weiwei finally released from prison, even as it held its breath to see what conditions China may have placed upon the artist’s freedom. Meanwhile, perfectly free artists the world over – by “world” read “New York” – squander their liberty every day by mindlessly churning out whatever [...]
- Weekend Links: Artists Out Loud
From protesting the most current threats to creative freedom to uncovering a long-forgotten painter from art history, this weekend’s links celebrate the power of the artist’s voice, with sometimes hilarious results. Kay Sage, White Silence, 1941, Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 1/4 inches, Private Collection. Photograph by Stewart Clements. (Source: Katonah Museum of Art) [...]
- Weekend Links: Reality Check
Even though I spent much of this week trying to keep my head down in the studio and focus back on the not-so-simple practice of just making art, my reading time threw me back again and again into the sobering reality of the structures that govern the well-nigh ungovernable currents of contemporary art. From biennales [...]
- Weekend Links: The Critic’s Progress
The shortened work week after Victoria Day left me with little time for excess blogging due to the need for too many last-minute gallery visits in preparation for today’s Akimblog deadline. I’ll be sure to link to the post when it goes live next week, but until then it’s not too surprising that the gritty [...]
