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Equity and Art Education

November 8, 2024

Equity dilemmas go all the way back to Solomon and illustrate that decisions about this issue are not always easy to make where practicalities of daily living are concerned. This roadway leads us to education for The Arts and the involved practicalities of administering them.

I could’ve done that ………

September 25, 2024

a landmark collection that are now noted for posterity

Sooner or Later

August 5, 2024

Sooner or Later Its real name, corporate name, despite its more endearing moniker “Gallery X”, is, “The Existential Art gallery of Scarborough”. So far, it’s a virtual gallery rather than something concrete, and, we are very proud of the exhibitions we have mounted so far,…

Really! Is This REALITY?

March 9, 2024

Reality has been questioned by physics and philosophy throughout the ages. “I think therefor I am” is perhaps the most notorious philosophical phrase thrown around in that regard and has many hilarious interpretive phrases as in “I shop therefore I am” and so on.

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

February 11, 2024

“World of Threads Festival” which could indeed mend the heart of many people with its outstanding expression and craftsmanship in Fibre Arts and Textiles

Where Have All The Volunteers Gone?

December 11, 2023

Where Have All The Volunteers Gone? It seems that it has gotten harder and harder to raise volunteers for non-profit organizations over the past 25 years. As usual demographic analysis definitely predicted the situation long ago. As people aged memberships would diminish, and executives would…

Art in The Garbage

November 5, 2023

Art is certainly existential, out there somewhere, locked in creative minds who are dreaming about it, or perhaps already sitting there in everyday existence, on a wall, standing on a plinth, stretched on a canvas, fired in a kiln, or even cast in bronze. An…

Sleepless in Toronto

October 30, 2023

Did you attend Nuit Blanche? Being a fairly busy chap, I haven’t previously gone to Nuit Blanche. I don’t know why; I just didn’t make it, ever. Nuit Blanche started in 2006 when I was likely even busier. I bet a lot of folks have…

Eye Know

July 25, 2023

It is a bit of a stretch to surmise that the impressionists began their great foray into light and colour by gazing into someone’s eyes at the Moulin De La Galette, which looks like it may indeed have been possible…

Something to Match the Couch!

July 24, 2023

When Goya painted “The 3rd of May, 1808” people had couches but he certainly wasn’t painting something to match the couch. I use that expression because it has been a standard joke among artists for as long as I can remember.

Bricks versus Virtual

June 26, 2023

‘Virtual’ is a tricky word, and these days it has significant meaning. Over time, at least since the beginning of the internet, we have been like little ants who run all over the place and create their kingdom…

AI, Think about it!

June 25, 2023

Lately, AI is the talk of the town with that two-letter acronym being a normal part of everyday speech. ChatGPT has also become quite familiar, especially in the sense of its writing, automatic writing, of letters, or most dramatically, student university essays. In the…

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