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“Le Noyé” and “Construction Worker, Paris” in Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography
Jillian Lerner, “Le Noyé [The Drowned Man]” and “Construction Worker, Paris” in Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, edited by Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter. Los Angelos, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024. Book information: The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium […]
Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America
Taking Place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to and challenge the institutions they have inherited. Through a series of regional case studies, the book interrogates […]
Unsettled Histories
Vancouver-based artist Dan Starling’s Unsettled Histories takes as its starting point Rembrandt’s renowned work Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves: The Three Crosses (1653). Rembrandt had created five states of this print, with each version altered through either sketching directly on the plate or adjusting the level of ink left on the plate for printing. Starling, […]
The State of the Situation
Featuring artist Althea Thauberger, and authors Jan-Erik Lundström, Melanie O’Brien, Kimberly Phillips, Zarmeene Shah, in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. For more information: https://shop-at-saag.myshopify.com/products/preorder-althea-thauberger-the-state-of-the-situation
Tom Burrows
Scott Watson and Ian Wallace, Tom Burrows. Vancouver, BC: Figure 1 Publishing, 2018 Book information: Tom Burrows, and the exhibition that preceded the book, presents work by the artist from his early career to the present. The book is a timely refocusing of attention on an artist who has made an immense contribution to the development […]
Heaven, Hell and Somewhere in Between: Portuguese Popular Art
Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between combines an in-depth analysis of Portuguese popular art and culture with stunning photographs of forty artworks—ceramics, masks, puppets—and another sixty supporting images, from medieval frescoes and roadside icons to graffiti and images of carnival performers and artisans at work in their studios. Complex, contemporary, theatrical, political, and often controversial, […]
Camera Atomica
A unique and engaging exploration of how the camera lens has shaped public perceptions of the atomic age and its legacy of anxiety. The images featured are extremely vivid and were taken by famed photographers including Weegee, Barbara Kruger, Sandy Skoglund and Garry Winogrand from some of the nuclear events from 1945 onwards. Wherever there […]
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in, eds. Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2013 Book information: The Northwest Coast of North America has long been recognized as one of the world’s canonical art zones. Since the mid-1700s, objects or “art” deriving from the Indigenous cultures of […]
Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art
John O’Brian and Peter White, eds. Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007 Book information: “The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country” was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven’s artistic project. The empty […]
Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto. Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2006 Book information: For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied […]