vancouver artists
Ken Lum’s Shangri-La Installation Brings Art Outside of the Gallery
Vancouver artist Ken Lum has built scale-model cabins at the base of the Shangri-La building, recreating the shacks erected on the Maplewood mudflats. The exhibit, From Shangri-La to Shangri-La, is part of the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite installation and runs until Sept. 6, 2010. As the VAG website notes: “Scale models of these structures appear to [...]
Arts community’s struggles continue
While his industry has been crippled by provincial-government cuts to arts funding, Keith Higgins isn’t short of work these days, even though he’s not getting paid for all the hours he does work. The Vancouver-based visual artist and activist, known for organizing his community to speak out against arts-funding cuts, was hired last month to [...]
Takin’ it to the (downtown) streets: For many people the Olympic experience is about crowds, street life and an abundance of arts and culture
The Olympics came with a lot of hype, and culturally, lived up to it. For the past two weeks, downtown Vancouver turned into a big street party, as up to 150,000 people a day flooded into the core to wander around, take in the sights and check out the many cultural events. “Downtown feels like [...]
From bars to brollies, Bright Light shines
On most late-winter nights at the corner of Hastings and Carrall streets, a cruel wind blows. The weather and the place conspire to produce a chilly kind of angst. Now, however, and for the next few weeks, the cold and the dark are dispelled by a project of temporary public artworks and events. Titled Bright Light, [...]
Vancouver’s host of problems: Amid Vancouver’s carefully stage-managed moment of glory, art gallery gathers works that tell a different story about the city
Behind the chain link and razor wire at the Vancouver Olympics’ Hillcrest Curling Venue, a broad `X’ marks the asphalt. Stand on it and narrow your gaze to a trim 20 degrees, and you’ll see what the TV cameras see: Verdant hills, thick cedars, snow-topped Olympian peaks. What you won’t see is almost anything else [...]
Chambar Highlighting work of Vancouver Artists During Games
Chambar restaurant will feature the work of two Vancouver artists during the Olympics, with the intention of sharing with the world some of the fantastic young artistic talent that the city has to offer. With Chambar’s close proximity to BC Place and Canada Hockey Place, thousands of Olympic visitors will have the opportunity to view [...]
Inside the ‘Phantom Galleries’ of the Downtown Eastside: Behind unmarked storefronts lies a vibrant art scene. How to find what’s on display during the Olympics
While the Downtown Eastside is known as Canada’s poorest postal code, it’s also the cultural capital of this country, some argue, boasting more artists than addicts. And while the international media has descended upon this neighborhood in order to show the dark side of our sparkling Olympic city, what’s missing from the story is its [...]
Made in Vancouver takes it to the streets: I Heart Van Art organizes indie festival in Yaletown
When the provincial government announced in September bone-deep cuts to B.C.’s arts and culture scene, Vancouver artists Dianna David and Charity Zapanta decided to fight back. The longtime collaborators — Zapanta a behind-the-scenes producer of David’s roving, clowning, dancing one-woman school show Take a Closer Look — formed I Heart Van Art, an organization dedicated [...]
New experiments in 2010 media landscape
Will the 2010 Games mark a “turning point” for crowd-sourced event coverage? Two new websites are aiming high with less than five days until the opening ceremonies. The first, Vancouver [de]Tour Guide 2010, is an interactive city map created by local artists, cartographers and geographers. Coloured markers indicate areas of interest that might not make it [...]
‘Pop-up’ galleries get their art on in time for Olympics
Unconventional spaces, unsung local artists gearing up for Games Art exhibits and galleries are popping up across the city in time for the Olympics, with the hope of drawing attention to local artists. “I was thinking that it would be a perfect time because the Olympics [are] a good opportunity to promote local Vancouver artists [...]
Canadian indie artist’s TWEET online success
Few music artists can attribute the launch of their career to pop-culture icons Twilight and Twitter, but Vancouver independent artist Adaline can. “I was playing at the Junos for Juno Fest and I met Robert Pattinson [who plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight series] at an after-party at the Junos. I went home that night [...]
Vancouver Art Organizations and Vancouver Artists Gear Up for 2010 Winter Games
To help win the bid for Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Games, the BC Liberal government leveraged the province’s vibrant arts and culture scene as the “second pillar” of the Games. But late 2009, the BC government announced sudden and severe arts cuts, to the shock of Vancouver art organizations and Vancouver artists, particularly before the fast-approaching [...]
Kim Collier, Lola MacLaughlin among recipients of Mayor’s Arts Awards
One of the Mayor’s Arts Awards in the performing arts category will go to director Kim Collier of Electric Company Theatre. Collier is among 22 established and emerging artists who will receive awards at a ceremony at the Museum of Vancouver on Monday (November 16). Broadcaster and author Bill Richardson will host the event. The [...]
Vancouver artists go grey for a day
Local artists and arts supporters plan to take to Vancouver streets on October 28 in a silent protest against the B.C. Liberals’ arts funding cuts. Billed the Grey Relay, groups of 16 to 20 volunteers dressed in grey will silently occupy street corners in downtown Vancouver for 15-minutes stretches along a predetermined route before silently [...]
