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 and...

The holiday break was great as I did absolutely nothing except read novels, play video games and hang out with family and friends (there was also a Boxing Day "incident," but I don't want to talk about it). But it has also meant it's been super difficult to get back...

Canadian Art is doing it, Sally McKay and Lorna Mills are taking submissions, so I guess it's about time I finally try to put together my list of top ten (or maybe 11) arty things I did/saw/drooled over this year (especially before Jon Davies publishes his list since...

I've been meeting and brainstorming and chatting informally with a couple of people about exhibition plans and ideas and am trying to work through one particular curatorial hurdle that seems to be a recurring theme in a lot of my aesthetic interests. Basically, the...

I don't usually post about my family and their work, but my friend Karen Whaley, who has her own awesome blog Say It With Pie and who is super on top of the local craft and DIY scene, recently alerted me to a pretty hilarious interview with my sister in a new...

I have been consumed with all things Christmasy lately, so my art-seeing and blog-updating have been spotty at best. But I did manage to put together a review of Stan Douglas' "Humor, Irony and the Law" for Canadian Art's website.Stan Douglas, Hastings Park, 16 July...

During my research trip to New York last weekend, I managed to fit in a bit of sight- and art-seeing, including a jaunt to the Guggenheim in the Upper East Side (Cait had never been and we have reciprocal membership through the AGO) to see two exhibitions: a group...

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 "Adventures in Reading...

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...

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,...

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...

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 downtown eastside, debuted...