Interview: Laurice

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Interview: Laurice

It's rare to meet someone with as much charisma and experience as Laurice; innovator of early punk, master of dance and disco, explorer of all rock and roll/pop stylings. If you haven't heard his music already, you're in for a real treat. "Could I account for all of the twists and turns that Laurice’s career has taken, in just one short interview? Probably not. But triumph is found in the trying." The man himself will be playing a show at the Emerald this Friday, August 5. For heaven's sake, do yourself a favour and be there.

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Three Kinds of Abstraction at Access Gallery

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Three Kinds of Abstraction at Access Gallery

April Thompson, after an internship at the Frick Collection in New York and an undergrad in Australia, booked a vacation to Vancouver. “I got here and thought, this place is just like a Jeff Wall photograph.” After years of curiosity, she knew it was time to stay. Thompson cancelled her return ticket and sunk her teeth into the Critical and Curatorial Studies Master’s program at UBC, soon coming to the realization that the Vancouver School is not what it at first had seemed. 

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Laura Piasta and #VMF at Burrard Arts Foundation

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Laura Piasta and #VMF at Burrard Arts Foundation

On July 14th, Burrard Arts Foundation opened two new exhibitions, one featuring their spring artist in residence, Laura Piasta, and another housing the in-gallery component of the inaugural Vancouver Mural Festival. Piasta’s show, A Definite Volume But No Fixed State, is expertly curated within the gallery and give a the impression of an alien interior design. The ink works are mounted like paintings and layered with iridescent shimmer. The murals in miniature provide a snapshot of the styles of working Vancouver artists and represent a kind of contemporary Vancouver School of art. 

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Review: Shakespeare 400 at the Cinematheque

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Review: Shakespeare 400 at the Cinematheque

"In case you didn’t know, the scope for filmic Shakespeare interpretation is cosmic. There are straight-down-the-sword dramatizations. There are keen adaptations that plunder Shakespeare’s skeletons to express original visual planes and manners... was Shakespeare 400 the good poison? I think yes." Film writer Dave Latimer gets rightly immersed in the Bard and makes it through unscathed, mostly. Oh Shakespeare, how we adore your tricks and twists!

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