Modern Fuel’s administrative director Jessica Rovito listens to the oral history of the gallery and watches the sign-language translation that is set as part of the show Instances. (Joshua Chan)
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Instances of a creative history
Looking back at the last 30 years and mining for definitive moments that have turned into blurry memories seems a little daunting. To then take that fog of detail and render it into a historical work of conceptual art is no easy feat.
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Round 3: Hiddens Cameras vs. Ktown
If you have only visited Kingston twice, and the experiences climaxed with discriminatory antics and a heated tussle, the third time may not be the charm. For the Hidden Cameras—a pop-meets-folk-meets-controversy musical blend—these adventures are all the more incentive to return.
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Annual benefit mixes art and aid
Along with the downtown Santa Claus Parade and the post-exam departure of thousands of students, the annual Salvation Army benefit concert is a holiday tradition in this city. Luther Wright, the show’s organizer, is a long-time member of the Kingston music scene—he gained fame playing lead guitar in Weeping Tile in the mid-nineties and for his alt-country cover of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, with his band Luther Wright and the Wrongs.
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Presenting the best albums of 2007
‘Tis the season for end-of-year best-of lists, and Journal staff have gathered to present their picks for the best five albums of 2007.
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Grave new world
“I think when you quit hearing sir and ma’am, the rest is sure to follow.” These are the words of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) lamenting the decline of traditional American morals in the brilliant new film No Country for Old Men. Written and directed by the Coen brothers after Cormac McCarthy’s eponymous novel, the film is their best since the 1996 classic Fargo, a long-awaited return to form after the underwhelming Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.
