This is Gregaro McKool coming to you from the County Fence Bi-Annual Skunkworks deep in the wilderness of Eastern Ontario and this week I’m back with more thoughts on art, why I do it, and what the hell I’m going to do with mine.
Tag: Art
Art & Culture
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Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza –or– An Exercise in Over-Confidence Part One
County Fence has our very first feature-length script: Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza —or— An Exercise in Over-Confidence.
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River’s Place
Audio Version Here River’s ‘studio’ is straight-up the kind of place my parents warned me about. They’d tell me that they didn’t immigrate to Canada so I could hang out at grow ops on the rez without cell service. Yet last week I parked my car beside a cornfield, said…
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Reason Greater Napanee is Greater #2: Real Men
Audio Version Here Greater Napanee is greater for many reasons and if Avril is #1 then our men are #2. That’s right, I said it: Greater Napanee has real men. Our independent country spirit raises them right. Our men know how to play hockey, fix the car, and catch you…
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Gentrification
Audio Version Here. The greying privacy fence behind Brenda Hogg’s white aluminum-sided wartime home may look like nearly every other house on the street but what lays behind is an artist, or so our art editor Walter Liu tells me after the dust up at the gallery the other week….
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The Art Show
Since art editor Walter Liu couldn’t find the local art scene the local art scene found him. And they’re not so sure they like what they found.
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Everyone’s Got Cholera
Audio Version Here Cornelius Krieghoff was the first artist to capture the Canadian landscape in oil paint. That’s what my Canadian Art History teacher told me in art school, anyway. She also told us that the landscape somehow informs all Canadian cultural output. My family is from Hong Kong. I…
Culture Department
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Meeting The Goddess
Audio Version Here. County Fence magazine has wanted an art editor from day one. Well here I am, biznatches! That’s right, Walter Liu is here to be your guide into the art world of Eastern Ontario. But there’s a problem, actually a few. I am a member of the internet…