Archive - Art and Other Things that Happen to Me

How mead is made

A tiny business in a tiny province makes a drink rich in history

May 6 •

March 2025

A brief look at small paintings of real people, commerce and snow

Brownell's paintings of Ottawa's ByWard Market are treasures

Mar 6 •

January 2025

Kiss, me, and the beer tent from Hell

That time I volunteered to be drenched in cheap beer

Jan 31 •

December 2024

The attraction of art catalogues

They make permanent the ephemeral

Dec 9, 2024 •

August 2024

November 2020

I write about things that have happened to me, and art

Welcome to Things That Happened To Me.

Nov 16, 2020 •

September 2020

Summer's end, and that Colville binoculars painting . . .

It’s been a strange year, and certainly less writing than usual, but I did write a piece about that iconic painting by Alex Colville at the National…

Sep 25, 2020 •

May 2020

March 2020

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