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Women, Life, Freedom comes to Cityscape Community ArtSpace, July 7 to August 26

New exhibition celebrates and gives voice to Iranian women

Whistler's Audain Art Museum hosts epic exhibition by Japanese visual artist Manabu Ikeda

Flowers from the Wreckage is the first solo exhibition in North America by the artist who draws meticulously detailed large-scale works in pen and paper

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 23, 2023Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Summer 2023, Homepage feature

West Coast Modernism celebrated in new exhibition featuring works by two local greats at West Vancouver Art Museum

Order From Chaos: B.C. Binning and Jane Adams illustrates how the work of the former inspired the latter

As part of Vancouver Art Gallery's Fashion Fictions, Indigenous creations reach couture heights

Guest curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe spotlights designers who are taking painstaking traditional techniques into the future of fashion

ART & DESIGN, FASHIONJanet SmithJune 21, 2023Vancouver Art Gallery, fashion, Indigenous art

Brilliance Gala auctions works by Artists for Kids founders Gordon Smith, Bill Reid, and Jack Shadbolt

Inaugural event raises $470,959 for the arts-education charity

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJune 18, 2023Gordon Smith, Briliiance Gala, Artists for Kids

Queer Arts Festival's bumfuzzled monachopsis exhibit explores new gender-diverse spaces, at the Roundhouse June 17 to 28

Kickoff visual-art show spans 3D sculpture, costume design, and digitally altered photography

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 13, 2023Queer Arts Festival, SUM Gallery, LGBTQ+, Summer 2023

Summer Arts Guide 2023: Artful and tasteful places to visit throughout B.C.

From Bowen Island installations to Nelson murals to winery concerts, culture vultures have lots to seek out this summer beyond Vancouver

CULINARY, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 13, 2023Summer 2023, travel, cultural tourism, SUMMER 2023

Laiwan and Hazel Meyer receive 2023 VIVA Awards, while Daina Augaitis wins Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize

Visual artists recognized by Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation work across disciplines, while Augaitis is best-known for her long tenure as Vancouver Art Gallery chief curator

Vancouver Art Gallery reaches new collective agreement with CUPE Local 15

VAG employees to receive wage increases, provisions around remote work

NEWS, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 9, 2023Vanouver Art Gallery, VAG, Spring 2023

Film review: White Balls on Walls takes behind-the-scenes look at a gallery grappling with diversity

Documentary profiles the sleek Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where administrators try to change an institution built around white-male artists

Queer Bash exhibition at North Van Arts is underway now until July 1

Word “bash” evokes both celebration and condemnation in works by eight 2SLGBTQ+ artists

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJune 5, 2023Partner Content, North Van Arts

The Polygon Gallery hosts book launch for Korean photographer Jin-me Yoon, June 8

Artist’s work explores place and identity in the context of migration, tourism, militarism, and colonialism

ART & DESIGN, BOOKSStir VancouverJune 3, 2023Partner Content, The Polygon Gallery

Nominations now open for the Polygon Award in First Nations Art and the Applied Art + Design Award

Presented by BC Achievement Foundation, distinctions recognize local creative prowess

ART & DESIGN, NEWSStir VancouverJune 1, 2023Partner Content, BC Achievement Foundation

Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival 2023 launches with gender-diverse group exhibition

bumfuzzled monachopsis: innerspace out is the 11-day fest’s curated show for 2023

National Indigenous History Month 2023 is being celebrated through the arts

On the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, several public events are taking place throughout June

Stir Pairing: West Coast edition with B.C. paintings, spot prawns, and wine

A new exhibition at Marion Scott Gallery; a seasonal seafood delicacy; and La Frenz Sauvignon Blanc

Vancouver's Chinese Canadian Museum gets $5,179,000 from Government of Canada

Cultural centre in Chinatown’s historic Wing Sang building opens on July 1

NEWS, CULTURE, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonMay 23, 2023Canadian Chinese Museum, Chinatown, Chinese

The North Shore's Arts in the Garden: 13 urban oases filled with artists, performers, and musicians

Art meets nature at the 24th annual cultural event, taking place in distinct outdoor settings

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 23, 2023North Van Arts, Spring 2023, gardens

Vancouver Art Gallery gets ready to host Art Party, its biggest bash in years

The VAG’s Sirish Rao explains how the multisensory event will enliven the venue from rotunda to rooftop, in conjunction with new Fashion Fictions exhibition