Meet a nice art guy:
I e-met Eric Bolduc this summer when I worked at the Oakville Galleries. He runs
the visual arts’ diversity webzine: ratsdeville.
We met because my job was to undertake the annual necessary evil of communications: updating the media list. (This is when you call and check contact info for a couple hundred arts outlets so that when you need to talk to media you have the right name, address, phone number.)
Like many artists and arts journalists, Eric has a day job (at Ciel variable in advertising, subscriptions and distribution) as well as this fantastic blog: ratsdeville.
Eric is a friendly art-lover who actually visited my blog and called it cool. He does the blog I dream of doing one day … connected to the community, versed in the educated yet understandable descriptions of arts and events. The visuals on the site are worthy of a look, too. The site has a feature called Rubik’s News (clever) that shows a cube of art from a show or collection in and around Montreal.
Don’t read French? Everything is in English too, but it seems easier reading art news in French than English. Why is that? Perhaps English Canada’s days of reading bilingual cereal boxes and shampoo bottles has paid off.
Abandon yourself to ratsdeville’s weekly newsletter because it’s invigorating to look at and easy to read. And Eric is a really, really nice guy.