by Gabby | Nov 27, 2008 | Writing
I’ve been doing a lot of research for my thesis lately, which has involved reading a lot of articles, essays and reviews about Vancouver art production. But my most favourite entry recently has been artist/critic/art historian Marina Roy’s essay...
by Gabby | Nov 25, 2008 | Writing
I have been in New York for the past few days, researching the thesis and seeing some art (some good, some atrocious, but more on that later) and am now madly trying to finish the first draft of said thesis to meet a now-overdue deadline, so my blog updating has been...
by Gabby | Nov 6, 2008 | Writing
A lot of the post-election analysis has focused on how on-message Obama had been throughout his campaign, but this amazing-could-be-art-if-it-was-in-some-other-context video makes just how consistent both he and McCain were blindingly, appallingly clear. In short,...
by Gabby | Nov 5, 2008 | Writing
I’ve been trying to be a more diligent and frequent blogger lately, but it seems to be manifesting itself this week as a series of posts about things I would do/see if I still lived in Vancouver. Currently on my radar are two exhibitions intended to augment and...
by Gabby | Nov 2, 2008 | Writing
I am totally biased about such things, because I love Stan Douglas’ work (so much so I am writing a thesis about it), but this week the artist’s newest photo project, a huge mural destined for the renovated Woodward’s building in Vancouver’s...
by Gabby | Nov 1, 2008 | Writing
Apparently, director Todd Haynes, of Far From Heaven and I’m Not There fame, made a reenactment documentary of the life of Karen Carpenter shortly after his graduation from Brown University with a degree in art and semiotics (not surprising). Called...
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