News

My article Minding the Arts: The Visual Understanding of Gerald Ferguson is in the latest issue of Border Crossings, #148. You can find it on newsstands or get a copy here.  

My latest blog, Change is Constant: The Year in Art, for Halifax Magazine is now live. You can read it here. 

You can read my Canadian Art On-line review of  Herménégilde Chiasson's exhibition  Depuis 50 ans/For 50 Years at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery here.

So pleased that two of my books, Mary Pratt: Still Light and Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting, were selected for Galleries West Art books 2018 issue. You can read about it here. 

I also am a contributor to the book Ned Pratt: One Wave, which was also featured in this issue. 

You can read my review of Wesley Harris's exhibition Mentor and Metalsmith at the Mary E. Black Gallery here.

Learn more about the exhibition on the Mary E. Black site. 

Or visit Wesley Harris's website. 

My essay Between Sea and Sky: Ned Pratt's Newfoundland Landscapes is included in the new issue of Prefix Photo.  You can find the magazine at http://www.prefix.ca/magazine/

I'm thrilled to have an essay in the new book on Ned Pratt just published by the Rooms and Goose Lane Editions.

You can order the book here. 

Find out about the exhibition here.

Learn more about Ned from his website.

My review of Kent Monkman's exhibition at the AGNS is now available on Halifax Magazine's website. You can read it here. 

For more information on how to see the show, go here.

My story on the unveiling of Kent Monkman's new painting at AGNS was just in the Globe and Mail. You can read it here. 

My latest book is now available from Gaspereau Press. You can ask for it in better bookstores, or you can order it here.

My review of Close to the Edge... The Work of Gerald Ferguson is now live at Canadian Art On-line. You can read it here: https://canadianart.ca/reviews/gerald-ferguson/

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/exhibitions/close-edge-work-gerald-ferguson

 Gerald Ferguson, Neoclassical Still Lifes, 1994, Enamel on canvas. 117.8 x 134.6 cm. 

My review of this exhibition at the AGNS is in the Fall 2018 issue of Visual Arts News (http://visualartsnews.ca/) 

Learn more about the exhibition  here: https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/exhibitions/blue-rocks-gerald-ferguson-marsden-hartley-and-john-hartman

Canada has lost one of our finest artists, someone I have been proud to work with and write about for over twenty years. She was a true original. (photo by Ned Pratt)

This wonderful essay is by Mireille Eagan:

https://canadianart.ca/features/mary-pratt-1935-2018/

My review of Robert Murray's exhibition at Studio 21 is up on Canadian Art's website: https://canadianart.ca/reviews/robert-murray/

http://studio21.ca/exhibitions/models-paintings-and-sculpture/