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by Kingston Art Gallery
Transcendence and Terror: Alex Colville (Dog, Boy, and St. John River)
Alex Colville, Dog, Boy, and St. John River, 1958, oil and synthetic resin on Masonite, 61 x 82.6 cm, Museum London, Ontario. http://collection.museumlondon.ca/objects/2811/dog-boy-and-st-john-river?ctx=7a8ad85f-84cd- 4fe7-8e64-59b416d751cf&idx=1 My estrangement...
The Power of Art (and Hockey)
It’s starting to look a lot like, no, not Christmas, but a lot like there will be more hockey this year, that they will award a Stanley Cup for 2020. Until now that seemed impossible, there was too much at stake to endanger lives. Nobody wanted a rerun of the 1919...
Lost Gloves
I have been taking pictures of lost gloves since 2002 as my personal response to a feature of the urban landscape that catches my attention and demands examination and documentation. At that time, in the spring of the second year after my mother had died, my elderly...
Trigger Warning: The Power of Art, This is the Nemesis by William Kurelek
One of my first encounters with contemporary Canadian art was a rather traumatic one: I was taken to an exhibition at the Hamilton Art Gallery in 1966, in which was a William Kurelek’s painting, This is the Nemesis, (1965,) a chilling work detailing the effects of the...
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