Ben Skinner at Winsor Gallery
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Ben Skinner: meticulous craftsman, innovative artist, collector of two-inch cubes. Read on for more about Ben's show with Alex Caldwell at Winsor Gallery and his practice.
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Interview with Poet Adèle Barclay
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I love the worlds we build with other people through language—how letters, poems, text messages, emails are not only evidence of our rapports, but they also actively shape them. Each relationship has its own vocabulary and texture and I like to think epistolary poems allow me to pay tribute to those idiosyncrasies. It’s also a way to conjure the addressee; it creates a wormhole that doesn’t exactly bring that person closer, but it does bring into relief that realm you’ve created together.
Read MoreA Love Letter to Untitled Art Space
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“We hoped participants would enter the gallery from the world in which we live our everyday lives and, once inside, be able to fully immerse themselves in a momentary dream world—known from their own personal experience of the space between.”
Read MoreReview: Literary Death Match
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“The judges, who are friendlier and funnier (no Simon Cowell here), do improv, the local contestants dramatically read seven minutes of their work, the audience sips wine, and the show-host, also Adrian Zuniga, keeps up a quick stream of literary jokes that validate and reward a liberal arts education while moving the show along through it’s own chaotic hoops.”
Read MoreSecrets Prose: You're Fine Where You Are
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“Maybe you should keep some of your art.” // He shrugs. He stands up and points at one of the lookalikes, the oldest and most graphic-designery among them. “Do you want that painting? Five bucks. But you have to prop it up on top of your toilet tank. That's the intention of the piece.”
Read MorePreview: Juxtapoz x Superflat at the Vancouver Art Gallery
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The exhibition is on view from November 5th through February 5th, 2017, and begs an afternoon’s worth viewing for art lovers and casual internet browsers alike. Juxtapoz x Superflat accomplishes a truly respectable feat: creating an accessible portal for the appreciation of “high-art” technique melded with “low-art” content.
Read MoreThe Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe
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The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe is a unique performance of physical theatre combined with a farcical comedy of errors that results in a mesmerising tale of one man’s journey to, at base, play the piano. Through mime and a Charlie-Chaplin-meets-Houdini set of fantastical flourishes and stunts, the old adage that 90 percent of communication is non-verbal has never rung truer.
Read MoreHead and Heart: Read Local BC
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Read Local BC is back again this year—and if you haven’t yet heard about this initiative spearheaded by the Association of Book Publishers of BC—then clear your calendar from now 'til November 7th.
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