The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is an objectively strange place for an art exhibit. The building, more bunker than gallery, is a dense centralized archive of plastinated, taxidermied and otherwise preserved specimens kept in ordered black shelving units whose drawers are mostly locked.
The Beauty in BIPOC may be depicted through the lens of modern cameras, but it highlights a problem that women of colour have been experiencing over many generations.
The Vancouver Iranian Visual Arts (VIVA) Alliance is set to open their new Medias Res Gallery curated by UBC alum Maryam Babaei on March 27.
Through cartoons, comics and satire, Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s-Now, curated by Melissa E. Feldman, confronts mainstream culture and politics, using humour to make critical ideas more accessible and engaging.
The Hatch Art Gallery’s most recent exhibition may be reflecting on the past, but the conversation it creates is futuristic enough to blast off to Mars with Elon — although I’m not sure the curators would enjoy that journey.
Co-curated by Dr. Snxakila Clyde Tallio, director of culture and language for the Nuxalk Nation and Dr. Jennifer Kramer, a curator at the MOA, the exhibit will focus on the deep connection between physical objects and sovereignty.
When I started my English seminar this term, I wasn’t expecting to learn about the end of the world.
Even though I knew Lungs of the Earth was going to be a sound-based exhibit, I was still surprised when I walked into Loeb Studio. There was nothing on the walls, and for a while I just stood by the door peering around for something to look at.
MOA’s recent closure was part of a series of seismic safety upgrades — funded in part by BC’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills and the Government of Canada — to the museum’s Great Hall.
This February marks two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — a conflict that has taken the lives of over 10,000 civilians and displaced millions, resulting in Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
As a curious child, you once asked an adult where the clouds came from. They probably responded with the standard answer: from water in the atmosphere, from evaporated rain — and I’ll bet it blew your growing mind.
