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Curator, writer, photography. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun. People of the Watershed (one of ‘the 10 best things about visual arts in 2024’) - The Globe and Mail.
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Tonight’s spin: self-described “doom rock Afro-soul big band with a ‘70s touch,” but also an imaginary western soundtrack to an imaginary western film I want to see.

Picked this up by chance: One of the best music autobiographies I’ve read. Not your usual trajectory to the stars but impossible highs and lowest lows, from being courted by famous to calls being ignored. Troubadour is earned. In her words “This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts,…

Love to see these initiatives. Profs whose courses have been canceled by universities bowing to the Feds, starting their own courses. People of a certain age may recall the 70s, under Reagan, Thatcher, Mulroney and Pinochet, when free universities became a resistance thing. History is never linear.

Winnie Bull with baby Elsie in a moss bag. Photographed on the Tsuutʼina Nation, Alberta in the 1920s by Arnold Lupson. 📷 Arnold Lupson | With Eagle Tail 1999

“What we do now is important, whether or not it’s recognized or appreciated today. It will be appreciated. Eventually, we’ll be thankful for it.” - How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future 📷 Mer Young | High Country News www.hcn.org/issues/how-a...

Opens Tuesday. Next stop on the Ontario tour. Hope to see you in beautiful Temiskaming.

Treasure from the music archives. Joni Mitchell’s 3LP 1976 U.S. Tour. A gem, both in sound and performance.

State Names (oil, collage, mixed media) | 🎨 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025) Smithsonian American Art Museum

Charlene Simeon, Shirley Amos, Wilfred Amos, Dick Amos, May Amos, Frederick Amos, all of Chiniki First Nation, Alberta. Photograph by Rosemary Gilliat, late 1950s. Named by community. 📷 Rosemary Gilliat | Library and Archives Canada

Chicago Daily News 📷 Vivian Maier | © Estate of Vivian Maier

Tlingit elder Jake Jackson as photographed by Catharine McClellan in 1951. 📷 Catharine McClellan | Canadian Museum of History

“Leadership is about submission to duty not elevation to power” - Gordon Tootoosis

Snowstorm. Bangor, Maine 1975. 📷 © Ken Regan | Morrison Hotel Gallery

The Creator’s Game - The Kahnawá:ke lacrosse team’s 1876 exhibition tour of Britain. open.substack.com/pub/paulsees...

I'm actually surprised to hear this is the first major exhibition of his work in the US. Monkman's work is fantastic.

Inuk photographer Peter Pitseolak with his camera and tripod. Photographed by his wife and creative partner, photographer Aggeok Pitseolak in 1947 on Baffin Island. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun | Canadian Museum of History

It’s April 12. It’s a pink moon. It’s a good day for a Nick Drake song.

Indianapolis, your chance to see ‘Radical Stitch,’ curated by Sherry Farrell Racette, Michelle LaVallee and Cathy Mattes, opens today and running thru August 3. A remarkable exhibition on the power of contemporary bead art. eiteljorg.org/exhibitions/... [Let’s Heal Together by Justine Gustafson.]

First encounter with the new facial recognition technology at an airport. No need to show ID or boarding pass, but having your face scanned and waiting for the green light is unnerving and feels invasive. I mean I get that paper passports and boarding passes are old tech but this feels Orwellian.

“The world around us feels increasingly turbulent. It's hard not to wonder how to keep going and whether where we're headed is worth it. But standing in the unknown has always been part of the creative process. What's changed is the noise surrounding it.” magazine.metalabel.com/making-the-l...

Next stop for ‘People of the Watershed’ at Temiskaming Art Gallery, opening April 22nd.

Thinking on Eno’s ‘Hard Art’ collective and artists building networks of creativity that enables little cultural disruptions, encouraging environmental and political change and an antidote to the current “politics of exhaustion,” and hopelessness. 📷 of Es Devlin | Cindy Ord/Getty Images

Pacific sunset tonight from the studio desk. I was told Malcolm Lowry insisted on a room with a bay view. While Lowry didn’t die at The Sylvia, he choked on his vomit at 47 in Ripe, England; it’s easy to sense his ghost stumbling up the marble stairs at closing time.

Artist Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010) poses for photographer Rosemary Gilliat at Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1960. Pootoogook would become the President of the famous West-Baffin Co-operative. 📷 Rosemary Gilliat | Library and Archives Canada

Seawall runners in a whispery rain. Leica Sofort 2

Native artists have always operated outside the Western art world’s linear timeline — moving in circles, spirals, and returns — holding history as not something left behind but…

“I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.” - Haruki Murakami

Self portrait with drawings | Tim Pitsiulak (1967-2016) Dorset Fine Arts

Crane in the rain evokes the grace of Tim Pitsiulak’s animal drawings.

Today’s score at Beat Street Records in Vancouver. Nico, Ayers, Cale and ‘baby’ Eno. Classic live album (with a story to it - look it up) near mint and $20. If you’re into vinyl and visit Van I highly recommend checking it out. Great selection, not just rock & pop, but rap/hip hop, country, blues.

Thank you all. Clem loved what he was doing. He lived his dream

Les Rencontres d’Arles will this year spotlight First Nations and non-Indigenous Australian artists in a major exhibition opening in July in France. Image: Custodians, from the series Portrait of a Distant Land, 2005, 📷 Ricky Maynard www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

From the amazing Multiple Realities: Experimental Art In The Eastern Bloc 1960s-1980s at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Art of Banksy in Vancouver. Up to $70 an adult to enter. Only 34 of the 150 works on display are actual Banksy’s, rest are reproductions. Unauthorized by the artist, of course. The revolution won’t be televised but it will be commodified and sold back to you.

“As the ownership was transferred back to the “Vancouver Island” First Nation, boxes and cases containing the shrine’s contents awaited their long journey back to Yuquot on the southern edge of Nootka Island, where they were taken under dubious circumstances… apple.news/AbPpHxaLNSXu...

Neon in Slyvia Gothic font.

Music to get one through 430am at airports open.spotify.com/track/5z1E46...

Columbo (Peter Falk) intuits the presence of fallen angel Damiel outside a Berlin Straßenküchen. | Wings Of Desire. Wim Wenders. The Criterion Collection

Shelley Niro’s ‘500 Year Itch’ at @remaimodern.bsky.social now until September 21. ‘Kanien’kehaka artist Shelley Niro career-spanning exhibition explores themes of identity, resilience, and history through a dynamic collection of works,’ with her customary wit.