Credit to Author: Nathan Griffiths| Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 22:06:14 +0000
“Everybody is bombarded with images with the proliferation of social media. Visual literacy — the ability to read images and think about images the same way that we all think about text — is a super important skill.” — Emmy Lee Wall
Read moreCredit to Author: Ian Mulgrew| Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:27:43 +0000
Opinion: Ono invites viewers to play an active part in the creative process: The exhibit provides objects — a canvas, a hammer and nails, a ladder, pieces of ceramics — and instructions
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Credit to Author: Kevin Griffin| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:00:11 +0000
With the latest donation, the VAG now has raised $86.5 million from the private sector for the new building. It’s the most money ever raised by arts and culture organization in BC.
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Credit to Author: Dana Gee| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:00:14 +0000
The renowned artist launches a new book, and a sculpture, in Vancouver
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Credit to Author: Dana Gee| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:00:05 +0000
Artists from across Canada, including three from B.C., compete in Landscape Artist of the Year Canada
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Credit to Author: Stuart Derdeyn| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:00:21 +0000
This year’s theme is chén̓chenstway, a Skwxwu7mesh Snichim/Squamish word meaning to uphold one another and to lift each other up.
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Credit to Author: Kevin Griffin| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:23:23 +0000
The works of David Wojnarowicz burrow deep into the personal and comes out political. The photographs & videos of Wojnarowicz (pronounced voy-nah-ROH-vitch) before and during the height of the AIDS epidemic that eventually killed him are sometimes literally in your face: the installation has a second-story mezzanine of scaffolding on three walls that forces you […]
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Credit to Author: Kevin Griffin| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:27:08 +0000
Nancy Noble said once the province of Nova Scotia prioritized the art gallery, federal infrastructure funding followed. In B.C., the province still hasn’t prioritized funding for a new Vancouver Art Gallery.
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Credit to Author: Shawn Conner| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:00:57 +0000
Robert Leveroos is the conceptualizer behind and performer in High Water, where submerged and floating objects create surprising images.
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Credit to Author: Kevin Griffin| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:00:58 +0000
The long-time artist, whose name graced the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art in North Vancouver, was 100 years old
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