Thursday August 9th, 2012
Fred Lee’s Person of Interest: Barrie Mowatt Took His Passion for Art and Made it Public
As founder and president of Vancouver's Biennale, Barrie Mowatt has been painting the town with art. Held every two years, the biennale a public Open Air Museum for contemporary art has become an important part of the city's artistic and physical landscape. Highlighting art in public spaces, Mowatt has been inviting Vancouverites to experience the worlds best talents where they live, work, play and take transit. The last biennial which ran from 2009-2011 featured 38 installations from around the world. No work delighted the public more than Chinese artist Yue Minjuns A-maze-ing Laughter bronze sculptures in Morton Park at Davie and Denman.
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Friday August 3rd, 2012
Globe and Mail: Lululemon Billionaire Ready to Chip in for Vancouver
Being a billionaire (and then some) can offer more freedom than even the stretchiest of yoga pants.
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Monday July 23rd, 2012
Globe and Mail: Yue Minjun gives Vancouver the last laugh
Even if laughter yoga isn’t your thing, this may be enough to prompt a sun salutation, or at least a hearty Namaste in Vancouver. Yue Minjun’s wildly popular installation A-maze-ing Laughter will remain here, thanks to a donation by the founder of yoga wear giant Lululemon. Chip Wilson and his wife Shannon have given $1.5-million to the Vancouver Biennale Open Air Museum, allowing the organization to gift the work to the city – where residents and tourists have fallen hard for the 14 painted bronze figures.
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Friday June 29th, 2012
Vancouver Courier: Bicycle-led public art tour spins by 30 pieces
People rode their bikes all the way from Port Moody last summer to tour Vancouver's public art.
Reservations for Art Wheelers' inaugural bicycle-led public art tours sold out after a story about the tours aired on CBC Radio.
"We were really surprised, we didn't think there would be an interest from locals," said Art Wheelers' co-founder, codirector and art guide Carole-Ann Ryan.
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Wednesday June 20th, 2012
STREET VIEWS Art in public spaces
CONSUMED AS I WAS with the dense traffic in Richmond one day, my preschooler's urgent cry initially caused me a moment of trouble and confusion: "Mama, look at the tumbling heads!" I realized she was pointing at the grouping of elegantly dynamic heads with baroque beards and blown locks, solemnly topsy-turvy- Cabeza Vainilla, Cabeza Cordoba, Cabeza Chiapas (2008-2009), Javier Marin's stunning contribution to the Vancouver Biennale 2009-2011 public art exhibition.
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Wednesday May 9th, 2012
City Lights – Vancouver Biennale “BIG IDEAS” Arts in Action
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Monday April 23rd, 2012
The Georgia Straight: Vancouver Biennale Receives Arts Champion Award
THE VANCOUVER BIENNALE has received the Arts Champion in Education Award, while Gabriola Island’s Kathy Ramsey, Vernon’s Lynne Hossay, and New Westminster’s Trudy Van Dop have received Arts Champion in Community Awards.
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Sunday April 22nd, 2012
Inside Vancouver: Giant Laughing Statues to Stay in English Bay
Good news for public art fans in Vancouver: A-maze-ing Laughter is staying in English Bay.
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Saturday April 14th, 2012
Vancouver Sun: Vancouver Biennale Raises City ‘Onto a World-Class Stage’
The number of public art installations in the City of Vancouver is set to shrink dramatically with the closing of the Vancouver Biennale exhibition, but organizers are hoping at least one of the sculptures will find a permanent home here.
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Tuesday November 8th, 2011
Globe and Mail: Vancouver biennale works go under the hammer in New York
A few weeks ago, Zhan Wang’s Artificial Rock #143 was removed from the corner of Granville and Georgia Streets in downtown Vancouver, where the crunched up ball of silvery contemporary art has been attracting climbing children and curious adults since the run-up to the Vancouver Olympics. It now resides at a Park Avenue address in New York (albeit temporarily), where on Tuesday it goes on the auction block along with several other offerings from the Vancouver Biennale, as well as works by in-demand emerging artists and superstar pop artists such as Keith Haring, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.
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