The Art Show - M4A Edition

A Terrible Beauty

ablonski@canwest.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 6:00:00 PDT

Rising to the Occasion: Rebecca Belmore's exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the marks of history on aboriginal women's bodies

Celebrating Bill Reid

ablonski@canwest.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 6:00:00 PDT

Master artist Bill Reid is honored with a totem pole carved by his one-time assistant Jim Hart. Topped with the figure of the trickster Raven representing Reid, the totem pole dominates the main hall of the new new Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in downtown Vancouver.

The Mythic Messengers

ablonski@canwest.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 6:00:00 PDT

A lazy son-in-law is one of the stories illustrated in Mythic Messengers, a monumental bronze frieze by Haida artist Bill Reid in the main hall of the new Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in downtown Vancouver.

Photographs That Embrace Life

ablonski@canwest.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT

Tenderness, enthusiasm, frailty, mortality, sadness - life in all its variations is portrayed in the photographs in the exhibition Lisette Model and Her Successors. The show contains works by Model, a leading New York photographer, and 13 artists influenced by her including Diane Arbus, Bruce Weber and Peter Hujar.

Stephen Waddell: visual hunter

ablonski@canwest.com — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT

Composed like paintings, Stephen Waddell’s photographs capture people unawares on city streets, beaches and parks. Many of them show strangers from behind, caught in fleeting private moments in public spaces. They also invite the viewer to create narratives that extend beyond the edges of the photographs.

Orientalism and Ephemera

ablonski@canwest.com — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT

The every day presence of the Middle East in popular culture and art Episode 2.

Paradise and Kuba

ablonski@canwest.com — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT

The Art Show is a podcast about visual arts in Vancouver, B.C. It will include interviews with local and visiting artists, reviews of exhibitions and news about what's happening in the region's art scene.