STORIES
illustration by Tom Magee, another former WHERE staffer
Reflections on an Accidental Magazine
Galleries West Ceases Publication
Aug 18, 2025
Illustration by Tom Magee
Paul Gessell: A Look Back
Eleven years of writing and editing at Galleries West
Aug 18, 2025
Kour Pour: Cosmic Diagrams at the Aga Khan Museum
“"Pour challenges us to embrace the multi-layered complexity of our heritages”
Aug 18, 2025
Quick Pick — Edward Fu-Chen Juan at Seymour Art Gallery
“His intention is to pay homage to the victims, their lives, their survival, their descendants, and those who have yet to be acknowledged for their suffering.”
Aug 18, 2025
Older Stories
Bookmark – Worlds of Wonder: The Surrealist Journey of Alan Glass
“Each artwork reads as a visual prayer — an ode to imagination and to the mystery of the invisible.”
Aug 18, 2025
Quick Pick: Death Boat And Other Stories
Rarely seen work from the Kampelmacher Memorial Collection
Aug 4, 2025
Skeklers and Daub at the Mann Art Gallery
Material and identity in the work of Laura Hosaluk
Aug 4, 2025
Star Witnesses at the Polygon
“The cosmos as a way to contemplate how we might survive life on Earth.”
Aug 4, 2025
Bookmark — The Place of Objects: The John David Lawrence Collection
“A lively and engaging portrait of the collector”
Jul 21, 2025
Otani Workshop: Monsters In My Head
“An irresistible charm, but more than charm is at work here”
Jul 21, 2025
Quick Pick — Berthe Weill at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
“A trailblazing female art dealer”
Jul 21, 2025
Northern Lights: Group of Seven in Buffalo
New exhibition celebrates Canadian landscape painters alongside Scandinavian artists who inspired them
Jul 21, 2025
Quick Pick — Meryl McMaster: Bloodline On View In Victoria
“McMaster’s works speak to her blended Plains Cree, Métis, Dutch and British ancestry”
Jul 21, 2025
Qiu Anxiong — The New Book of Mountains and Seas
Shanghai-based artist's new media works...“are permeated with disquieting imagery”
Jul 7, 2025
Quick Pick — Deep-Seated Histories at Museum of Vancouver
Galleries West contributor Mark Mushet contributed to exhibition centred around chairs
Jul 7, 2025
Respecting Collections and Collectors
Leverage, status, civic pride — the inestimable value of permanent collections
Jul 7, 2025
Quick Pick — Iranian Fairytale Inspiration for Installation
“Projected across multiple pieces of gauzy fabric, the characters of the story shift and change, morphing as the story progresses.”
Jul 7, 2025
Dennis Ha
Quick Pick — Vancouver Art Book Fair Returns
Canada's longest-running international art book fair features 100 exhibitors this year
Jun 23, 2025
