The Vancouver Art Gallery is celebrating Emily Carr Month throughout the month of February, offering a special $10 admission rate for adults along with complimentary art prints. Where Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St When Daily 10:00am to 6:00pm (9:00pm Tuesday) until February 28th Tickets Advance general admission tickets are available online or you can […]

When jewelry designer Peg Steley was approached by the owner of the Back Gallery Project, Monica Reyes, about an exhibition Steley says she suddenly viewed her work in a different light. “It made me perceive it as a body of work and motivated me to push the envelope,” she says. Before a career in jewels, […]

Vancouver Icons: Gate to the Northwest Passage

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC recently opened a new exhibition, The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926-2011. On until March next year, The Marvellous Real features 55 artworks that capture the idea of the “marvellous real”, a term coined by Cuban writer and ethno-musicologist, Alejo Carpentier (1904 – 1980). The term is used to […]

The International Artist Day Festival in White Rock is a weekend-long celebration of artists from around the world right here in our own backyard. Festivities will kick off on Friday evening with a gala event, followed by two days of art and performances at the White Rock Community Centre. International Artist Day Festival in White […]