What keeps cowboy art collectible?
More than 100 years after gaining widespread popularity, western-themed painting and sculpture is still riding tall.
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Herzog Show Finally Closes at Equinox Project Space
Each time an end date approached, people kept flocking to see the Kodachrome-coloured prints of long-gone Vancouver scenes circa the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
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"Open Spaces: Windows to a View"
"Open Spaces: Windows to a View" presents two new installations now on view at the 7th Avenue and Centre Street LRT platform. Local artists Dean Stanton and Barbara Sutherland explore memory and social history.
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Julie Bevan appointed Nanaimo Art Gallery Executive/Artistic Director
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Saskatchewan Legislative Building Artist-in-Residence Program
As part of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building 100 Anniversary celebration, eight Saskatchewan artists have the unique opportunity to explore the history and significance of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building through their own artistic practice.
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WAG Executive Director Stephen Borys Elected to Board of Canadian Museums Association
Established in 1947, the Canadian Museums Association is the national organization for the advancement of Canadian museums with nearly 2,000 members.
Features
J.J. KEGAN MCFADDEN: With Alec in Mind, April 19 to June 9, 2012, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon
“I’m beginning to think so much of what I do concerns memory,” says curator J. J. Kegan McFadden, director of Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts in Winnipeg.
Apr 30, 2012 by Kenton Smith in PREVIEWS
Elizabeth Padilla
DOUG CRANMER: Kesu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer, March 7 to September 3, 2012, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
Northwest coast carver and artist Doug Cranmer shunned the limelight in his lifetime, but now a retrospective exhibition at Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology shines a bright light on a collection of his works known as indigenous modern.
Apr 30, 2012 by Janet Nicol in PREVIEWS
Courtesy Jill Clark
LEONARD BROOKS (1911 - 2011)
In self-exile from Canada and its diffident art scene, Leonard Brooks’ career proves that none of us know where our lives will take us.
Apr 26, 2012 by Jill Sawyer in HISTORICAL WORKS
DEANNA BOWEN, "Stories to Pass On," February 25, April 15, 2012, Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat
Deanna Bowen’s great-grandparents fled the United States in the wake of the officially sanctioned and legislated Jim Crow segregation laws.
Dec 31, 2011 by Monique Westra in PROFILES
KEN WEBB, "New Work," March 3 to 31, 2012, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary
The industrial cast of Ken Webb’s current works is depicted through a mix of representational and abstract imagery — factories, refineries, and workers clustered around built structures.
Dec 31, 2011 by Jill Sawyer in PREVIEWS
HUA JIN, "My Big Family," April 20 to June 10, 2012, Richmond Art Gallery
When Hua Jin immigrated to Vancouver from China four years ago, she was lonely and lost. “My parents had passed away and I was divorced,” Jin explains. “I am from a generation where most of us are the only child.”
Dec 31, 2011 by Janet Nicol in PREVIEWS
Thursday
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Art & Exhibitions
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Rick Leong
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Art & Exhibitions
Rick Leong: The Phenomenology of Dusk-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Studio - The Abstract Experience"-
Friday
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Art & Exhibitions
"Ebb & Flow: Sonny Assu + Rande Cook"-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Studio - The Abstract Experience"-
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Art & Exhibitions
Rick Leong: The Phenomenology of Dusk-
Saturday
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Art & Exhibitions
Laura Harris-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Ebb & Flow: Sonny Assu + Rande Cook"-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Studio - The Abstract Experience"-
Sunday
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Art & Exhibitions
Laura Harris-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Ebb & Flow: Sonny Assu + Rande Cook"-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Studio - The Abstract Experience"-
Monday
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Art & Exhibitions
Laura Harris-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Ebb & Flow: Sonny Assu + Rande Cook"-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Studio - The Abstract Experience"-
Tuesday
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Art & Exhibitions
Laura Harris-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Ebb & Flow: Sonny Assu + Rande Cook"-
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Art & Exhibitions
"Studio - The Abstract Experience"-
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