by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 20, 2015 | Art Discourse, Art History, Critique, Guerrilla Art, Guerrilla Girls, Male Gaze
Rania El-Alloul says she a Quebec judge told her to remove her headscarf. (cbc.ca photo) When I see the debate raging around women wearing the hajib (head scarf) or niqab (cloth covering the face) in Canada, I think about the male gaze. The latest...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 6, 2015 | Additive, Architecture, Bauhaus, Building, Critique, Design, William Morris
One of the biggest lessons learned from a career in newspaper journalism was, surprisingly, the difference between decoration and design. It began when I built up basic layout skills using paper dummies, reduction wheel, metal pica-pole (also good for gouging into...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 23, 2015 | Art Discourse, Artist, Artist Statement, Critique, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Domestic, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Inspiration, Lecture, Macrame, Making, Net, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Performance, Social Engagement, Wrap I, Wrap II
This just uploaded… Six and a half minutes devoted to that question I get a lot:”What’s up with the doilies?”(Video courtesy of Terry Fox Theatre’s PechaKucha program. More info on the entertaining, informative and globally-popular...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 9, 2015 | Art Discourse, Banksy, Bob Krieger, Cartoon, Critique, Drawing, Editorial, Media, Newspapers, Protest, Social Engagement, Social Justice, Social Media
I’m writing this as the radio airs a live report of gunfire. The French police have just killed the two brothers who hunted down particular editorial workers at the satirical Paris magazine two days ago, murdering 12.A bloodbath over hand-drawn images is over...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 28, 2014 | Art Discourse, Art History, Critique, Environment, Expression, Ian Reid, Ian Wallace, Mural, Painting, Protest, Shawn Hunt, TJ Watt, Vancouver, Visual Language
The war in the woods is heating up again. Except it’s not the people against forestry giants MacMillan-Bloedel or Fletcher Challenge; on this day it’s Kinder Morgan. Yagis Eating an Oil Tanker by Ian Reid Nusi. (Photo by Christopher Glawe) Oil-pipeline...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 14, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Artist, Big Data, Critique, Culture, Distraction, Instagram, Marketing, Media, Research, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver
I’ve been giving Instagram a lot of thought. And I’ve concluded that I’m exhausted. (Photo by Carlyn Yandle) I realize that Instagam can turn a small-town lady with a crafty idea into an international business success story, but that’s quickly...
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