Events at: Vancouver Art Gallery

Curator’s Tour: Grant Arnold on Fred Herzog

Free with Gallery admission. Join exhibition curator Grant Arnold for a tour of the exhibition Fred Herzog, the first survey to examine Herzog’s overall body of work, including more than 100 photographs. Born in Germany, Fred Herzog came to Vancouver in 1953. Since that time he has produced a substantial body of photographs, taking urban […]

Enduring Appeal: Looking at the Painting of Modern Life

In conjunction with Monet to Dali: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art join Dorothy Barenscott for a lecture on how late 19th century artists gave visual shape and dimension to the myths and spectacles of urban modernity, while simultaneously addressing the promise of newness and transformation that the modern age promised. Looking at […]

William Wood – “The Task of Representing”

Join William Wood, art historian and critic, as he discusses the legacies of photography, history painting, and modernity through the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Roy Arden Selects From the Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In particul William Wood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at The University of […]

Join art historian John O’Brian for a special tour of the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 brings  together more than 150 Pictorialist photographs from the late nineteenth  and early twentieth centuries, tracing the movement’s progression from  its earliest influences to its seminal effect on photographic Modernism. One of the first truly international artistic movements, Pictorialism  was simultaneously a movement, a philosophy, an aesthetic […]

Symposium: Vision and Visibilities in Early Modern Dutch Art

In conjunction with the Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery Organized by Bronwen Wilson, Associate Professor. The exciting exhibit of seventeenth-century art from the Rijksmuseum provides the point of departure for a symposium that brings together international scholars to explore new perspectives […]

CUE: Artists’ Videos

January 23 to March 21, 2010 CUE: Artists’ Videos features internationally acclaimed artists, Fischli & Weiss, Gary Hill, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Paul Wong and UBC MFA alumni Marina Roy, Myfanwy McLeod and Tim Lee. The Vancouver Art Gallery presents CUE: Artists’ Videos, an exhibition of video art displayed on the portico of the Robson Street facade. […]

UNREAL

Exhibition runs until September 5th, 2011. Since the origins of Surrealism in the 1920s, the tension between the recognizable and the unfamiliar has inspired and informed artistic practices. Unreal, drawn primarily from the Gallery’s permanent collection and augmented with local loans, considers contemporary artists’ explorations beyond the rational and looks at the ways in which […]

Beat Nation

Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture – February 25 to June 3, 2012 Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that […]