smARThistory

Ryan Millar recently sent me a link to a website called smARThistory, an interactive website meant to replace or augment classic art history instruction. The blurb on the site claims that”smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic...

“How Soon Is Now” at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Apparently you can take a girl out of Vancouver, but it’s much much harder to take the Vancouver out of a UBC art history grad. Despite feeling pretty overstimulated by what Toronto and its environs offers in terms of art and cultural events, I still manage to...

“What It Really Is” at Red Bull 381 Projects

I am really excited about the upcoming exhibition at Red Bull 381 Projects, “What It Really Is”. Curated by my friend Nick Brown, the show aims to survey recent sculptural production in Canada with a particular emphasis on artists who use everyday...

Inauguration documentation/art

I really love this image from the Fastwürms of Obama’s inauguration (taken from Sally McKay and L.M.’s blog):It is almost as good as The Huffington Post’s story about the rash of post-inauguration babies that were named after the president and his...

Alfred Eisenstadt’s “Children at Puppet Theatre”

Alfred Eisenstadt, Children at Puppet Theatre, Paris, France, 1963 Gelatin Silver print photograph, © Time Inc.Since the strike at York University began back in early November (it seems so long ago now), I’ve had a lot of time to devote to doing my own reading...