Community art projects

I tend to have a lot of apprehension and reservation about community art projects, especially projects that attempt to involve “resource-poor” or inner-city and otherwise marginalized groups. I’m not sure what informs these reservations. I think...

Dennis Oppenheim’s upside-down church

I actually had no idea what this artist’s name was when I lived in Vancouver – I just always thought of this piece as the “upside-down church” in Coal Harbour. And while I used to think it was a little over-the-top, I sort of enjoyed how much...

Associative YouTube-ing

Cait and I were doing some associative YouTube-ing and it turns out that this is the first result that comes up under “Gabby”.I would give pretty much anything to have had this girl’s moves when I was in dance class as a child.

Stutter and Twitch

Cait has been teasing me that I’m unemployed now that classes are over and my contract job is done and I only go to an internship two days a week, but I think today I finally got the swing of things and realized I could spend all this free time riding my bike...

The AGO’s new logo

The AGO launched their newly designed logo, created by Bruce Mau Designs, today.Is it just me, or is it a little underwhelming and a lot like the aesthetic of Saved by the Bell circa 1991?