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Archive for the ‘Vancouver’ Category
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Fiona Ackerman – new works
Following the process of development of bodies of work is magical. Fiona Ackerman, a Montrealer living in Vancouver, has been fighting the art forces and winning every battle. Her most recent paintings can be seen at Winsor Gallery on South Granville Street starting Thursday, March ...
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Vancouver Art Gallery – New Acquisitions
At this rate the VAG will need the so-talked-about new building pronto. The Gallery acquired 156 new works in 2011, including some of my favourite local artists: Angela Grossmann, Brian Jungen, Rodney Graham and Gathie Falk, and many others. Ken Lum’s Documenta 11 installation, Mirror ...
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VAG Announces Early Program on its 80th Year
René Magritte,The Six Elements, 1929, oil on canvasPhiladelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 © Estate of René Magritte / SODRAC (2010) This is exciting! The Vancouver Art Gallery will host from May to September of this year the most comprehensive ...
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Philosopher’s Cafe discusses Rio x Vancouver
The weather forecast predicted snow but that didn’t keep roughly 25 people to meet at Byng Arts Mini School for another of SFU Philosopher’s Cafe last night. Pnina Granirer, Vancouver artist and co-founder of Artists in Our Midst, has been hosting these art discussions for ...
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Art for Life 2010
Art for Life – the auction – is the art event I look forward to every November. This year, at the 560 club, a new and exciting venue, the auction was fabulously fun. Drinks, music, street dancers, drag queens, yummy chocolate and desserts, and last ...
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Man Ray at the MOA
Man Ray – African Art And The Modernist Lens brings to Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology more than Man Ray’s famous photographs of African objects. For the first time, a number of these photographs are presented along the original African objects they portrait. The exhibition raises ...
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Vancouver Art Gallery's relocation – FAQ
Last night, the Vancouver Art Gallery held at the Museum of Vancouver its last-in-a-series of Public Information Sessions about its proposed relocation . I couldn’t participate but asked Greg Johnson, PR of the relocation program, to answer a few questions. Here is what he sent ...
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VIFF Brings a Great Line-Up of Arts Movies To Town
This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival brings to town an extraordinary collection of documentaries on the world of visual arts. I had the opportunity to preview some of them and there is something for every art lover. From Emily Carr to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The latter ...
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Kerry James Marshall at the VAG
The grandiose and touching exhibition of Kerry James Marshall at the VAG makes it to the pages of Art Forum. Kudos to Kathleen Bartels (and our Jeff Wall) for putting together one of the most beautiful exhibitions of the year so far and for her ...
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The Games are Open
Photo by Vancouver Sun Now that the Games are over The Games are Open can be viewed from Friday, September 10th. A project by German artists Folke Kobberling and Martins Kaltwasser, this massive sculpture representing a bulldozer is made of 1,000 wheat board panels liberated ...