Today is Blog Action Day 2008 and this years topic is poverty. Blog Action Day tries to raise awareness about a specific issue by having thousands of bloggers blog about a single chosen topic on the same day. This is my rant. The average person who reads this blog doesn't really know about or has been touched by poverty personally. Have you ever had to make the choice between food or heat? Have you ever had to go without medicine because you couldn't afford it?  read more »

I just discovered the Urban Sketchers blog a couple of weeks ago, and it immediately became one of my favorites.
I enjoy location sketches done in an urban environment, particularly travel sketches, and the blog has much of that feeling, even though the contributors are often sketching in their home city.
I came across Urban Sketchers [...]

that would be Post Vernissage Depression, as...Edith Dora Rey

With David Altmejd creating one of the biggest Canada coups ever for the Venice Bienniale last summer and Michel de Broin winning the Sobey (as well as some court cases) this past year, Quebec artists are at the forefront of our national scene. Now the Quebec Triennial, opening in Montreal this weekend, offers viewers a survey of the scenes strengths under one roof.

Martin Wittfooth’s paintings draw on both industrial and natural elements, often displaying an intersection and clash of those worlds.
Rusting hulks of buses (school, public and VW) sink into the ground in barren landscapes, and occasionally sprout new growth; disarmingly fish-eyed cats swim in drainage channels with bobbing warheads while silver zeppelins glide over concrete [...]