- Thinking outside the red box
Canada Post may still be on strike (emphasis on the “may” as the news indicates that a legislated end may be near) but artists in general aren’t anywhere near that organized and still have business to conduct. Visual artists at all stages of their careers answer calls for submissions from public galleries, artist-run centres and […]
- 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)
Fuck yeah […]
- James North Art Crawl: A June Observation
While I can’t claim to have done so with perfect consistency, I have been attending and writing coverage of the James North Art Crawl since October 2007. Looking back on that first distant report from the days when Hamilton Artists Inc. was on Colbourne and I was, amazingly, even more jaded than I am today […]
- 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 […]
- Off the Shelf: Climbing the Cold White Peaks
It’s been quite a while since I’ve turned up with one of those book-review type things I once optimistically promised to do around here once a month (the last being this look at various lo-fi artist books in my collection), and this overdue instalment is already breaking my ground rules in that this book did […]
- Akimblog Hamilton and St. Catharines now online
My latest post for Akimblog is now online for your reading pleasure. Follow the linkage to see my whirlwindy observations on By Design and By Chance at the McMaster Museum of Art, Rick Pottruff’s Search Engine City at Art Gallery of Hamilton and Colin Lyons at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Rick Pottruff, Search Engine City (detail), 2011, […]
- 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 […]
- TOMORROW: Supercrawl Artist Info Night
In the interests of boosting the signal as a member of the Supercrawl Curatorial Committee, I’m co-opting my digital soapbox to remind folks in my local arts community of an upcoming opportunity for art installations at this year’s Supercrawl. For those interested in presenting a site-specific project at this year’s event in September, the information […]
- James North Art Crawl: May
Because this month’s Art Crawl review is longer than most, I won’t go on at length with any preamble except to say that something really peaked this time around - not only in the number of venues to take in, but also in the overall quality of work to be enjoyed. As ever, discussing it […]
- Weekend Links: The Old and the New
This week’s many doses of nostalgia run the temporal gamut from the 16th century to the last decade and altogether revel in the contemporary verve found in the enjoyment of old but never forgotten things.
Dan McCarthy, ‘The City on the Edge of Forever.’ 12″ x 24″ screen print. Hand Numbered. Edition of 325. Printed by […]
