Articles — Stir

Canada's first Chinese Canadian Museum finds a home in Vancouver’s Chinatown

Province of B.C. funds new project, purchases historic Wing Sang Building at 51 East Pender Street from Bob Rennie

NEWS, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2022Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver Chinatown, Chinatown

Artificial intelligence-driven poetry blazes at UrbanScreen, February 12 to May 1

Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection is an immersive outdoor art installation on view after sunset

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2022Surrey, Surrey Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery turns First Folio page—oh so carefully—to Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare’s famous love story marks Valentine’s Day at the exhibition

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2022Vancouver Art Gallery, Valentine's Day

Vancouver artist Stephen Waddell takes viewers virtually into his studio at Audain Art Museum Tuesday Night Talk, February 15

Photographer discusses the work Termini in the online event

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2022Audain Museum

Monumental image by Sara Cwynar announced for BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation

This year’s commission by Capture Photography Festival shines a light on advertising tropes

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2022Homepage feature, Capture Photography Festival, photography, public art

Works by Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Stan Douglas, and more on view at Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection

The late Burnaby flight attendant and founding member of the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver began buying artworks in the 1980s with savings accumulated from per diems

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonFebruary 7, 2022Griffin Art Projects, Capture Photography Festival

Stir Q&A: Mi'gmaq photographer and mask-maker Duane Isaac explores Indigenous relationship between land and body

Sovereignty at SUM gallery is the queer artist’s first solo exhibition in Vancouver

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonFebruary 2, 2022SUM Gallery, Duane Isaac, Indigenous, photography, masks, Homepage feature

Tiko Kerr explores nearness in career-spanning solo exhibition, now showing

Politics of Proximity showcases works on canvas, collage, and Plexiglas

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 31, 2022Tiko Kerr, Monica Reyes Gallery

Stir Pairing: Mixed-media, spy-thriller beer, and killer hot dogs in Mount Pleasant

This East Vancouver outing brings together Western Front, Main St. Brewing, and Sausageland

The Lantern City lights up the night downtown and on Granville Island at LunarFest

Ten diverse local, Indigenous, and international artists have created towering lanterns for the installations

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022LunarFest, Lunar New Year

Conversation on the Art of P.Mansaram livestreams via Surrey Art Gallery, February 5

The free talk about the prolific Rajasthani-born Ontario-based artist’s work is moderated by Indian Summer Festival’s Sirish Rao

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 26, 2022Surrey Art Gallery, Indian Summer Festival

Construction under way for massive seismic upgrades to the UBC Museum of Anthropology Great Hall

The rest of the facility remains open as the grand glass structure is entirely rebuilt

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 25, 2022MOA, Museum of Anthropology

Stir Q&A: Keith Langergraber on climate change, isolation, and the creepiness of borders

The Vancouver- and Kelowna-based visual artist hiked to over a dozen fire towers throughout the Pacific Northwest as part of the research behind The Dusk Meridian

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 21, 2022Vancouver Art Gallery, Offsite, VAG, Keith Langergraber, site-specific work

Chinese-American writer Jane Wong feeds her ancestors through sculptural poetry

The Bellingham-based poet wrote After Preparing the Altar, The Ghosts Feast Feverishly upon learning about the Great Chinese Famine

ART & DESIGN, READ, CULINARYGail JohnsonJanuary 21, 2022art and design, Richmond Art Gallery, Jane Wong, poetry

P.Mansaram exhibition introduces B.C. to multidisciplinary artist's vast body of intricate work

The Medium is the Medium is the Medium shines a light on the late Indian-born, Ontario-based artist’s career spanning more than five decades

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2022Surrey Art Gallery, Indian Summer Festival, Homepage feature

Artist Trevor Lai designs Vancouver Canucks’ 2022 Lunar New Year warm-up jerseys

Having grown up in Vancouver playing street hockey, the animator created a bold Year of the Tiger logo

ART & DESIGN, NEWSGail JohnsonJanuary 13, 2022Vancouver Canucks, Year of the Tiger, Lunar New Year

On Air zooms in on screen culture, mass media at Surrey Art Gallery, opening January 22

Visitors can pull a lever on a slot machine-like installation by late media artist Nancy Paterson that pulls up hundreds of random images from TV clips

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 13, 2022Surrey Art Gallery