Kate Beaton is the kind of artist that makes my job difficult. You see — she's awesome. So much so that it's difficult to write anything at all about her work without merely waxing poetical about said awesomeness ad nauseum. ...Read More
Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893–1910) is among the most well-known and widely reproduced icons of Western art. Given the four versions (in paint and pastel) plus a lithograph made by Munch himself, The Scream has been a somewhat promiscuous and ...Read More
"Banksy came to Toronto!" Ah ha (I think, too groggy for an exclamation point) so I didn't leave my cellphone set to "loud"— I merely dreamed the obnoxious ring-tone, and now for the surreal conversation. No doubt the scene shall ...Read More
Ambling up Ossington Ave. the other day (which, up-and-coming-neighbourhood status notwithstanding, I rarely do) I came across an establishment called Meta Gallery, located in a white-painted building built like an auto-mechanic's garage and set back from the side walk. The ...Read More
As this past January came to a close, the webcomic Axe Cop went pandemic over the internet. Of course a great many viral pandemics are sweeping the internet at any given moment, and under closer scrutiny they by and large ...Read More
In matters of art on the internet, conceptual artists have a habit of getting there first and leaving behind little more than tedious ghosts of their abstract inspirations. Sometimes it takes an artist from the commercial world to build something ...Read More
It's a given that any review is going to hand the reader a pair of expectacles to wear when sallying forth to view the object in question with their own eyes. It's a rare thing to come across an object ...Read More
Since encountering those flip-books from the bins in the kindergarten classroom, I've always had a soft spot for mix-and-match monsters. Surely you know the ones: sectioned like three-piece barn doors, the upper section bears images of various animal heads; the ...Read More
I'd wager that for most everyone reading this, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the last places you'd think of when I say the words "horror," "ghostly," "creeptacular" or "Halloween." Since its recent reconstruction (what with its slick ...Read More
Screens of all sorts consort with art these days. For instance, as you read this, computer-based media are forging mind-bogglingly new aesthetics and new ways to interface with viewers... but screens and art go back way before the Commodore 64. ...Read More
