Vancouver As some of you know, Chief Librarian Jane Devine Mejia moved to UBC as Co-op Education Manager for the School of Information in early December and Library Technician Joanna Spurling is preparing for retirement in 2022, after more than 20 years at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The Library and its staff have been an integral part of the … Continue reading
This is the final Arts News created by Jane Devine Mejia and Joanna Spurling for this year. The Library & Archives will be closed for refurbishment from December 1, 2021 – January 3, 2022. Any announcements and information about resuming regular Library hours and services will be posted on the Library’s WordPress site and on the … Continue reading
Vancouver Herzog & de Meuron reveals second Vancouver Art Gallery redesign with woven copper-effect facade. Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its second redesign for a new building at the Vancouver Art Gallery after the project was pledged a nine-figure donation from a property developer. The architecture firm has revised the massing and facade of the proposed building, opting … Continue reading
Vancouver Vancouver Art Gallery superdonor Michael Audain writes a riveting memoir. This month, the public learned that the chairman of the Audain Foundation had made the largest cash gift to an art gallery in Canadian history. Michael Audain handed over $100 million to support the creation of a new Vancouver Art Gallery building on the … Continue reading
Vancouver Record donation jump starts project to build new Vancouver Art Gallery building After a decade of planning, the Vancouver Art Gallery hopes to break ground on a new building in a year’s time – because a donor has come forward with a record $100-million gift for the project. The VAG announced Thursday that Vancouver … Continue reading
Vancouver Jack Harman’s Family returns to Vancouver. In an era when many historic statues are coming down, Jack Harman’s most controversial work has gone back up. Friday morning, a crane lifted a giant bronze sculpture onto a plinth at the Creekhouse courtyard on Granville Island. After a quarter of a century in exile, Harman’s 1966 work The … Continue reading
Vancouver Can We Ever Really Know Yoko Ono? It’s hard to look at Yoko Ono’s creative work without the clouding strangeness of celebrity getting in the way. A fog bank of notoriety that occludes a clear picture… Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono and The Art of John and Yoko, a new exhibition at the Vancouver … Continue reading
Vancouver BC Achievement Foundation announces inaugural Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist Award for Elen Danielle. The BC Achievement Foundation has announced the 2021 Awardees of the Carter Wosk Applied Art and Design program—including the winner of a new prize named for late furniture designer Judson Beaumont. The Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist designation goes to Elen Danielle … Continue reading
Vancouver Yoko Ono: GROWING FREEDOM’s calls to action still resonate in a world that’s falling apart, at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many sections of the major new exhibition Yoko Ono: GROWING FREEDOM are so minimalistic that they appear incomplete. That’s because they are unfinished—entirely by design. This is a show that invites interaction, with works … Continue reading
Vancouver Andrew Gruft remembered as a major figure in both architecture and photography. Andrew Gruft a prominent member of the Canadian architectural community and a major collector of photographic art, has died at 84. His Jewish family fled Poland with him and his siblings in 1939, eventually ending up in South Africa, where Gruft grew … Continue reading
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