Vancouver VAG honours the lost children of Canada’s residential schools with Orange Shirt Day performance. The Vancouver Art Gallery will honour the lost children of Canada’s residential schools on Orange Shirt Day (this Thursday, September 30). The event, Xweýene:msta:m ?əkwəsqwel, seýeḿ (translation: call to witness/listen to respected one), blends traditional Coast Salish song and regalia with contemporary music and performance. … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, September 21, 2021
Vancouver Altarpieces and Shrines Shaped From Found Objects. In Soul Power at the Vancouver Art Gallery, history passes through Jan Wade’s hands transformed like an exhaled breath. Inspired by her foremothers’ recycling of materials, Wade creates altarpieces, shrines, and memory jugs out of found objects. Wade assigns significance to discarded bric-a-bracs: tiny horseshoes become mementos of Emancipation … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, September 14, 2021
Vancouver Artist Alan Storey plays with time, space, and motion under the ever-swinging Pendulum. As the creator of the monumental pendulum that swings in the atrium of the HSBC building on Georgia Street, Alan Storey is one of the biggest names in public art in the city. He’s the mind behind the steam-activated wooden barrels … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, September 7, 2021
Vancouver Visual arts moves into spotlight at TAIWANfest. This year’s TAIWANfest offers programming for music lovers, those interested in current affairs, film aficionados, and anyone with a hankering for Taiwanese cuisine. Plus, the festival is hosting the fifth of its annual Dialogues With Asia series, this time focusing on South Korea. But for some, the greatest … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, August 31, 2021
Vancouver Garry Neill Kennedy championed conceptual art, influenced artists across Canada. Obituary: Artist, teacher and administrator lived in Vancouver, earlier turned sleepy art college in Halifax into a world centre for conceptual and avant-garde art in the 1960s and 1970s. Vancouver Sun, August 28, 2021 Sdahl K’awaas wins Sterling Prize for challenging racism and the … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, August 24, 2021
Vancouver What’s in a name? Visual artist Lady Hao Hao highlights the absurdity of referring to Taiwan as “Chinese Taipei” During the Paralympic Games and in the recent Olympic Games, athletes from Taiwan have not been allowed to compete under the name of their country. Instead, they represent “Chinese Taipei”, a term promoted by the … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, August 17, 2021
Vancouver Garry Neill Kennedy, artist who transformed NSCAD, remembered for dedication to the industry. G arry Neill Kennedy, the conceptual artist credited with putting the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on the international art map, is being remembered for his dedication to the industry and changing the lives of his students. “My relationship with … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, August 10, 2021
Vancouver Soul Power. Soul Power, on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery until March 13 is Vancouver artist Jan Wade’s incisive statement on slavery, racism and injustice. It’s the gallery’s first solo exhibition by a Black female artist. Wade grew up in Hamilton and was heavily influenced by the civil rights movement in Canada and the United States. … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, August 3, 2021
Vancouver Four art installations announced for upcoming SkyTrain stations in Vancouver. The B.C. Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry revealed the artists who have been chosen to create art installations that will appear at four forthcoming SkyTrain stations. An open call for proposals from artists and teams in Canada began in 2020, asking for art projects to … Continue reading
Visual Arts News Digest, Compiled by Vancouver Art Gallery Library, July 27, 2021
Vancouver Vancouver Art Gallery’s latest exhibit paints a picture of resistance and social justice Given Vancouver’s history as a confluence point of different cultures, it is perhaps no surprise to hear about some of the underlying themes woven through Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo, one of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s current exhibitions. “The pieces amplify … Continue reading
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