I first saw the work of Brendan Tang at a collective show at the Vancouver Art Gallery earlier this year. His Ming vases raise their skirts to show pop robotic figures underneath. The clash of cultures happens in his work in a fun and very ...
A boom of construction and architectural development has transformed the Vancouver skyline over the past few months in preparation for the 2010 Olympic Games. Now, Berlin- and Vancouver-based artist Jeremy Shaw aims to enact a different kind of visual transformation in the west coast city’s ...
Mario Cravo Neto, Brazilian photographer, died last Sunday at 62. His work has a strong religious content and he was a master in showing the human body both powerful and fragile. I am sad -his work never failed to touch me. Spiritual, mystical, erotic, his ...
Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson, 1984, 76.2 x 66 cm, technicolor silkscreen Commissioned to celebrate the success of Thriller, a portrait of Michael Jackson painted by Andy Warhol goes to auction later this August in New York. From 1984, when both artists were at their peak, ...