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Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, an exhibition running at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC until Nov.30, provides a unique look at the fledgling creative origins of the celebrated and controversial Chinese conceptual artist. Weiwei is equally known for his diverse artistic output and for his commitment to greater freedom of…
The exuberant colour and delicate lines of Japanese art, blended with rough and explosive North American street art, will be the highlight of an upcoming show, Hiraki, at Ayden Gallery in downtown Vancouver from Sept. 12 to Oct. 12. The show will feature pop surrealistpaintings by six Japanese-born artists, most of whom are extreme sports…
When visitors look into the artwork that adorns the entrance stairwell of the West Richmond Community Centre, they might just see a little bit of themselves in it. Rising is the result of a community art project led by Vancouver-born artist Jeanette G. Lee which encouraged community members of all ages to contribute ideas and…
In some ways they know our cities best; they observe, experience, and interpret a city’s beat, rhythm and pulse. They are public artists. In Vancouver we have Jacqueline Metz, and Nancy Chew, or better known under their collaborative banner: Metz&Chew. Apart from Vancouver, their work spans across Canada, even to the United States. Art Gallery…
Azawad Libre! New Media and Imagined Geographies in the Sahel is a collection of digital creations on display from August 11 to October 5 at Bob Prittie Library in Burnaby. The collection presents images of fantastical identities and new geographies produced on the cellphones and computers of young people throughout the Sahel region of Africa.…
Exploring language, art and culture, The Book of Jests is a compilation of political jokes in 15 different languages – English, Italian, Hebrew, Hindi, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, German, Greek, French, Turkish and Czech – surrounded by illustrations from 16th century painter Albrecht Dürer. These illustrations, which depict stories from the Bible, come…
The 2014 Indian Summer Festival’s Artpolitik: Culture and the Graphic Novel brings Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas to Vancouver on July 9, along with Indian graphic artist Orijit Sen and architect David Wong, to discuss their work and the storytelling power of the graphic novel.
Claiming Space: Voices for Urban Aboriginal Youth, a new art exhibit at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), showcases the work of young, indigenous artists who bravely seek not only to tell the truth about Canadian history, …
What do crushed coke cans and clay pigs have in common? A place in Gu Xiong’s exhibition titled Gu Xiong: A Journey Exposed, a series of installations at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.
Through their joint exhibition Attachments, showing at the Richmond Art Gallery from June 27 to Aug. 17, Lucie Chan and Marigold Santos raise discussions on identity, …
Play, Fall, Rest, Dance, an art installation currently running at Vancouver’s grunt gallery until July 5th, is poised to defy the notion that good art is necessarily the product of structured creative efforts of adults.
For local artist Todd Giihlgiigaa DeVries, his story is a web of many different experiences: a tumultuous childhood, the search for identity, reuniting with his birth mother, becoming a cedar weaver and finding a place to call home.
Tibetan monks will be creating a Sand Mandala at the Sacred Sands exhibit this June at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden under the supervision of Venerable Khenpo Sondam Rinpoche.
