Ghosts and Whispers / ‘such are my pictures of the dead’
I visited the now shuttered Rodman Hall Art Centre site recently, and this brought to mind an old article, about a past exhibition, that played with hauntings and ghosts.
Politics
A lack of ethics and due diligence in cultural gatekeeping
In 2021, I was contacted by the University of Saskatchewan: they are in the process of purging artworks from their collection. This is a brief opinion on the lack of due diligence and ethics that seem to be tainting this, and too many, institutions.
Unsettled
Your intrepid #artcriticfromhell offers a perhaps challenging opinion on what the closure – and loss – of Rodman Hall Art Centre means, employing Mary Ann Barkhouse’s Settlement as a focus for intersecting narratives.
2020: thanks for the dance, it was hell, it was swell, it was fun
Your intrepid #artcriticfromhell offers some thoughts – caustic, candid and hopefully clear – about 2020, and what is in his mind at the commencement of 2021.