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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.
View ArticleOrientalism and Ephemera
The every day presence of the Middle East in popular culture and art Episode 2.
View ArticleStephen Waddell: visual hunter
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...
View ArticlePhotographs That Embrace Life
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...
View ArticleThe Mythic Messengers
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...
View ArticleCelebrating Bill Reid
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...
View ArticleA Terrible Beauty
Rising to the Occasion: Rebecca Belmore's exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the marks of history on aboriginal women's bodies
View ArticleA Chandelier's Story
B.C. artist Joseph Plaskett recounts the story behind one of his favourite paintings in the exhibition: Bouquet and Chandeliers, currently on display at the artist's show at Vancouver's Bau-Xi Gallery.
View ArticlePortrait of the artist as a book
Vancouver Sun arts reporter Kevin Griffin talks with AA Bronson about artists' books. Bronson was one of three founders of the influential conceptual and media art group General Idea in 1969. His...
View ArticleGermaine Arnaktauyok in life and legend
Vancouver Sun arts reporter Kevin Griffin talks with Inuit artist Germaine Arnaktauyok about the legends and legendary characters that populate her work. Arnaktauyok's drawings and etchings are being...
View ArticleThe three dimensions of Mark Soo
Vancouver Sun arts reporter Kevin Griffin talks with Vancouver artist Mark Soo about his work, That's That's Alright Alright Mama Mama. It is the first work purchased by the Vancouver Art Gallery with...
View ArticleThe sexual beatitudes of Meg Hickling
Vancouver Sun arts reporter talks to sex educator Meg Hickling about workshop she is giving at the Vancouver Art Gallery that advise parents and children how to deal with nudity in the feminist art...
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