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
Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits […]
Image Bank
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Woven Work From Near Here
Emily Hermant and T’ai Smith, Woven Work from Near Here. Vancouver, BC: grunt gallery, 2018 Inspired by traditional weaving practices—including Indigenous methods for weaving blankets and baskets alongside structures and patterns that have come from elsewhere—the exhibition presents recent experiments by artists who live and work near here. Juxtaposing materials and methods, the works in […]
Fringing the Cube
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An Exhibition Never Opened
Gu Xiong: Migrations (https://ahva.ubc.ca/publications/guxiong-migrations/) was originally produced to accompany a forty-five-year retrospective organized by the Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (Chongqing, China, June 10–August 11, 2017) that was shut down before it officially opened and the catalogues were seized. The publication An Exhibition Never Opened documents these events and includes new writings. For more information: […]
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 […]
Graphic Culture, Illustration, and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848
Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian modernity in order to market new print publications that would amplify […]
From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions / Do Carnaval à Luta Libre: Máscaras e Devoções Mexicanas
Lavell, Nicola and Anthony Alan Shelton, From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions / Do Carnaval à Luta Libre: Máscaras e Devoções Mexicanas. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Lisboa, 2017 Book information: From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions offers a series of glimpses into some of the most ingenious expressions of Mexico’s […]
Migrations
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