"A deadline met becomes the solace for every undigested epiphany" - Roger Cohen
My writing on art has appeared in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, ARTnews, the Montreal Gazette, Vie des Arts and The National Post, among others. Newspaper contributions attempted to present contemporary art to a general readership: from contemporary trends and profiles on contemporary artists to subjects as varied as art theft, art transportation, artists’ estates and art authentication. In 2010, I was the guest curator for the exhibition Dead Cat Bounce at Art Lexis in New York.
Selected articles:
FEATURES
In Profile (Montreal Gazette)
Sonic Boom, Jan 2007
Robot Love, May 2007
Showing Stories, Oct 2006 (PDF 8.7mb)
Photo Synthesis, July, 2006
Driven To Abstraction, May 2006
Montreal Gazette (news features)
Estates of Play (artists, estates and collections) March 2010
Handle With Care (international art transportation) Sept. 13, 2008
Art Restorer Points Own Finger, May 9, 2008
It Takes a Thief, Sept 1, 2007 (reprinted National Post)
The Case of Jackson Pollock's Fingerprint, Nov 8, 2006 (PDF 3.8mb)
Under The Radar (Montreal Gazette)
The Prince of Park Avenue Nov. 15, 2008
Graveyard Johnny Fast March 2009
REVIEWS
ARTnews
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo @ Galerie Push, Montreal , Canada, ARTnews June 2011
Anish Kapoor @ the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, India - ARTnews March 2011
Canadian Art
Sarindar Dhaliwal - Spring 2011
DHC/ART: Flow Chart - DHC/Art, John Zeppetelli (feature profile) Winter 2010/11
Michael Merril - Nights at the Museum- Fall 2010
Michal Rovner Winter 2010
Joe Battat's Playhouse (feature profile)- Spring 2009
Barry Allikas - Event Horizons - April 2009
Valerie Blass Spring 2009
Francois Lacasse Winter 2008
Québec Triennial Fall 2008
Ingenieux3, Summer 2007
Pascal Grandmaison, Summer 2008
Border Crossings
Marisol: A Retrospective, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, spring 2024
Nicolas Party: L'heure mauve, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, spring 2022
Caroline Monnet: Ninga Minèh, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, fall 2021
Relations: Diaspora and Painting, Phi Foundation, fall 2020
Benjamin Klein, Shifter Bender Striker, fall 2018
Voices of Fire, (group show) Galerie SAS, summer 2011
Benjamin King, White Sparkle, winter 2011
Janet Werner, Who's Sorry Now? Aug. 2010
Vie des Arts
Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth, Vie des arts #202, 2006 (PDF 1.1mb)
Urban Territories, Vie des arts #201, 2006 (PDF 1mb)
Art Nature Dialogues, Vie des arts, #198, 2005 (PDF 1.1mb)
3 x 3, (Dan Flavin and Carl André Donald Judd) Vie des arts, #198, 2005 (PDF 1.4mb)
Il Modo Italiano:Italian Design and Avant-Garde in the 20th Century, Vie des arts,#203, 2006
Pascal Grandmaison, Vie des arts, # 204, 2006
Montreal Mirror, Hour Magazine (excerpts - regular contributor from 1988 - 1992)
A Shot in the Dark - William S. Burroughs, (exhibition interview) Montreal Mirror 1989 (PDF 1mb)
Silence and Light, Louis Kahn, Hour Magazine 1993 (PDF 1.2mb)
The Economy of Culture, John Grande, Hour Magazine 1993 (PDF 1mb)
The Final Matter, Bruno Ceccobelli, Hour Magazine 1993 (PDF 1mb)
OTHER PROJECTS
Guest Curator - Dead Cat Bounce, Art Lexis, New York, NY, June - August 2010
Road Signs, catalogue text, Bonnie Baxter exhibition at Division Gallery, Montreal, March 2010
Renée Duval and The View From Here, catalogue text, Renée Duval at Art Mur, Montreal, 2011
Meditations in an Emergency, catalogue text, Trevor Keirnander at Art Mur, Montreal, 2012
The Pedestrian Plumbing of Nicolas Grenier, catalogue text, Nicolas Grenier at Art Mur, Montreal, 2012
Dan Oxley's Dark Wood, catalogue text, Daniel Oxley at Warren G Flowers Gallery, Montreal, 2016
Reflected Anxieties, catalogue text, Erica Dueck at Art Mur, Montreal, 2017
Messages in a Bottle, catalogue text, Adam Gunn at Art Mur, Montreal, 2018