Thursday March 12th, 2015
Vancouver Biennale Artwork Wants To Heal The Divide In City’s Downtown
There's an invisible border in Vancouver — a mere curve in the road — that separates two different worlds. Most Vancouverites don't think much of how one side of East Hastings Street by Victory Square marks the low-income Downtown Eastside, while the shiny and prosperous retail and financial districts sit on the other side.
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Wednesday March 11th, 2015
Art reflects life in the Downtown Eastside
As I listened to an Elections B.C. official describe the voting process for the forthcoming plebiscite a single thought came to mind: I hope we never have to go through this again. What a colossal disaster this is turning out to be. Thanks, Christy.
As the ballots are about to be mailed out, I have decided to again leave town. This time I am off to Paris and Morocco in search of more planning ideas to share at a forthcoming lecture entitled 12 Great Ideas for Vancouver from Around the World. It will be presented at SFU Harbour centre on April 1.
But before I leave, I am participating in an art unveiling and panel discussion at 6 p.m. tonight (March 11) at Vancouver Community College’s downtown campus. It is organized by the Vancouver Biennale, a non-profit charitable organization that celebrates art in public spaces. It brings to Vancouver the works by internationally renowned and emerging contemporary artists that most people actually like.
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Monday March 9th, 2015
Exploring Art in Public Spaces: A Documentary Series- The Divide
“Let’s Heal The Divide” is a neon artwork by Toni Latour, a commission for the 2014-2016 Vancouver Biennale. It is installed at the crossroads between the impoverished, troubled downtown eastside and the financial district, on the front of Vancouver Community College, itself a victim of “the divide.”.....
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Wednesday March 4th, 2015
Vancouver Symphony 2015-16 season mixes new with old
Like the daffodils, announcements of next year's artistic seasons seem extra early this year. As a case in point, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra released its plans for 2015-16 earlier this week.
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Wednesday March 4th, 2015
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announces 2015-16 season
Violin and piano stars, some unique cultural fusions, and a festival devoted to Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner highlight the just-announced 2015-16 season at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
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Tuesday January 20th, 2015
Park Board chooses nine artists for Fieldhouse Studio Program
Instant Coffee, Mr. Fire-Man and Publik Secrets are among the artists and art groups chosen for the 2015 Fieldhouse Studio Program by the Vancouver Park Board.
Three of the fieldhouses will be shared by artists associated with the Vancouver Biennale.
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Wednesday January 14th, 2015
BLUME: Public art is more than decoration
This past spring, the Vancouver Biennale expanded its exhibition to North Vancouver with two public art installations along Upper Lonsdale, the headless Walking Figures and Meeting with its crouching red monks, as well as an indoor pavilion of Brazilian art in Shipbuilders Square.
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Tuesday January 13th, 2015
Vancouver Biennale: Perspectives on Public Art
The Vancouver Biennale has two notable distinguishing factors: it’s almost exclusively outdoors, and it lasts for two full years. Now in its third iteration, this unusual take on public art continues eschewing the rapidity that usually marks biennales, searching, instead, for more long-term engagement.
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Friday January 2nd, 2015
Top 10 standout (somewhat random) arts events of 2014
Here are some—but not all—of the big and small works and events that stood out on the past year’s arts scene.
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Friday January 2nd, 2015
Vancouver Biennale to sell $50,000 maquettes of F Grass
Sometime in 2015, the Vancouver Biennale will be getting a special shipment of art from Ai Weiwei: five maquettes of F Grass, the sculptural work of cast iron in the shape of a calligraphic ‘F’ in Coal Harbour.
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