Blog Archives - Gallery X

From Camera to Archive: Color Reference Essentials

October 3, 2025

If you’re undertaking the important work of digitizing artwork—whether your own collection or pieces you’re preserving for posterity—there’s a critical technical standard you need to understand before investing significant time in the process

Archiving: Answers in a Flash!

September 21, 2025

Throughout my life, I have accumulated an extensive collection of artwork.

This one’s for the dreamers

September 8, 2025

Sometimes I wonder if I hit that fourth dimensional gas pedal, with 1.21 gigawatts, and zoomed into 2035 would I skid to a smoky stop in front of a spectacular bricks and mortar “Gallery X”, The Existential Art Gallery of Scarborough. It is of course…

Toilet Paper Forgeries

August 20, 2025

I own a Cornelius Krieghoff painting. The only trouble is, it’s a fake. A forgery. A cheat. A knock-off. A sham. A phoney. A brummagem. That’s a long list, but they all mean the same thing,

National Indigenous Peoples Day

August 8, 2025

The video presentation, discussing indigenous art, was originally prepared for a school to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day

The Garden, the Gallery, and a Bit of Magic

July 11, 2025

This morning, over coffee on the deck, we marveled at how the black swallowtail caterpillars had discovered our little pot of dill. That’s what they eat, after all—dill, the herb. They’re beautiful creatures, but they’d munched their way through the pot and were running out…

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…

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