Imagine Van Gogh, the immersive exhibition, will open in Vancouver Spring 2021.
Over 200 of Van Gogh’s famous and lesser-known paintings will come to life in Vancouver for an immersive exhibit set to open at Vancouver Convention Centre February 2021.
Skwachàys Lodge Gallery Launches a New Exhibit
A new exhibit, in collaboration with the Eastside Culture Crawl, titled Dis(place)ment: Explorations of Place, Past, Present and Future is now on show at Skwachàys Lodge Gallery, Vancouver, BC. The exhibit runs from until November 23, in partnership with the Carnegie Centre Association and the Eastside Culture Crawl Society. This exhibit, curated by Cheyenne (Natoyihkii) McGinnis, attempts to highlight […]
Who is nicenothings®? The Story Behind the Smile
By Mark Shelling After corresponding with the artist known as nicenothings, I’m still no closer to knowing who he is. For context, you may not know the name nicenothings, but if you live in Vancouver, you have definitely seen his work. Walk through just about any YVR neighbourhood, and you’ll see his tag, which has […]
Currency at the New Media Gallery features 8 Award-Winning International Artists
The New Media Gallery presents eight award-winning artists consider the multiple narratives and symbolic systems that have accumulated around contemporary notions of currency in a rapidly changing world of technology. They consider how things and ideas acquire value, reflecting common anxieties, critiques and problematic relationships with our systems of currency. Fabbio Lattanzi Antinori (Italy) uses […]
In the Beginning: A Cultural Sharing
The Firehall Arts Centre and Vancouver Moving Theatre are thrilled to produce and present, as part of the 2020 DTES Heart of the City Festival, In the Beginning: A Cultural Sharing, which will run from Wednesday, November 4 to Saturday, November 7, 2020. The five cultural sharing events, which will take place over four days, include Over The Mountains, From The Waters, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish. Storyteller, […]
ONLINE EXHIBITION: The Upper Side of the Sky
Jawa El Khash, The Upper Side of the Sky, 2019. Screen still. Courtesy the artist. As part of Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week, Western Front is pleased to present an online exhibition of The Upper Side of the Sky by Jawa El Khash, curated by Dana Qaddah. As described by Qaddah, El Khash’s project is “an interactive […]
LarbitsSisters Talk + Panel
New Media Gallery, presents an Artists Talk by Brussels-based artists the LarbitsSisters, followed by a Panel Discussion with Dr. Cissie Fu (Dean of the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and Ami Iaria (Associate General Counsel at the British Columbia Securities Commission). The LarbitsSisters’ will speak on their […]
Bill Reid Gallery: Resurgence: Indigiqueer Identities
Image: Two Spirits at the Carnival Stations of the Cross. By Levi Nelson, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 2019. Private collection. Bill Reid Gallery: Resurgence: Indigiqueer IdentitiesThe Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the exhibition Resurgence: Indigiqueer Identities, curated by Jordana Luggi – which celebrates the deeply personal and profound work of four emerging artists […]
The Polygon’s latest exhibit, Third Realm, highlights contemporary art from across East and Southeast Asia
The Polygon Gallery presents Third Realm, a group show of contemporary art from across East and Southeast Asia, marking the first major exhibition at the Gallery since its closure in March due to Covid-19. Third Realm includes contemporary works of photography, video, drawing, and installation by seminal figures of the contemporary art scene. “We are thrilled to welcome […]
Close to Home: New works by David Wilson
With his newest collection, Close to Home—his first since 2019’s Everywhere From Here—artist David Wilson offers a peek at those final, pre-COVID days. In the poignantly titled “Come Back to Me”, Wilson’s vibrant acrylics capture the Stanley’s grand marquee as it presides over a rain-slicked South Granville Street, still busy with traffic and—typical to the artist’s often-waterlogged […]
Vancouver Essential Artists: Who Is Fred Herzog?
If you’re searching for a glimpse into Vancouver as it once was, then look no further than the work of Fred Herzog.
Vancouver Artist Marion Webber is Taking to the Sky With Latest Show
When I finished my chat with Vancouver artist Marion Webber about her upcoming show “Sky Cathedrals and Other Stories”, I was struck by how time seemed to have flown by when I finally looked at the clock. Throughout our talk, we often meander off-topic, getting into discussions about where inspiration comes from, and how art […]