Category: Talk - Culture & Arts The Art Show is a podcast about visual arts in Vancouver, B.C. It will include interviews with local and visiting artists, reviews of exhibitions and news about what's happening in the region's art scene.
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The sexual beatitudes of Meg Hickling Thu, 23 Oct 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Vancouver Sun arts reporter talks to sex educator Meg Hickling about workshop she is giving at the Vancouver Art Gallery that advise parents and children how to deal with nudity in the feminist art exhibit, WACK.
The three dimensions of Mark Soo Thu, 25 Sept 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Vancouver Sun arts reporter Kevin Griffin talks with Vancouver artist Mark Soo about his work, That's That's Alright Alright Mama Mama. It is the first work purchased by the Vancouver Art Gallery with some of the proceeds from an endowment provided by arts philanthropist Michael Audain.
Germaine Arnaktauyok in life and legend Fri, 19 Sept 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Vancouver Sun arts reporter Kevin Griffin talks with Inuit artist Germaine Arnaktauyok about the legends and legendary characters that populate her work. Arnaktauyok's drawings and etchings are being shown at Inuit Gallery of Vancouver until Friday, Oct. 3.
Portrait of the artist as a book Thu, 17 Sept 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Vancouver Sun arts reporter Kevin Griffin talks with AA Bronson about artists' books. Bronson was one of three founders of the influential conceptual and media art group General Idea in 1969. His current exhibition in Vancouver is Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter at the Artspeak gallery.
A Chandelier's Story Fri, 12 Sept 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) B.C. artist Joseph Plaskett recounts the story behind one of his favourite paintings in the exhibition: Bouquet and Chandeliers, currently on display at the artist's show at Vancouver's Bau-Xi Gallery.
A Terrible Beauty Mon, 12 May 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Rising to the Occasion: Rebecca Belmore's exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the marks of history on aboriginal women's bodies
Celebrating Bill Reid Mon, 12 May 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Master artist Bill Reid is honored with a totem pole carved by his one-time assistant Jim Hart. Topped with the figure of the trickster Raven representing Reid, the totem pole dominates the main hall of the new new Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in downtown Vancouver.
The Mythic Messengers Mon, 12 May 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) A lazy son-in-law is one of the stories illustrated in Mythic Messengers, a monumental bronze frieze by Haida artist Bill Reid in the main hall of the new Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in downtown Vancouver.
Photographs That Embrace Life Fri, 18 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Tenderness, enthusiasm, frailty, mortality, sadness - life in all its variations is portrayed in the photographs in the exhibition Lisette Model and Her Successors. The show contains works by Model, a leading New York photographer, and 13 artists influenced by her including Diane Arbus, Bruce Weber and Peter Hujar.
Stephen Waddell: visual hunter Fri, 11 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) Composed like paintings, Stephen Waddell’s photographs capture people unawares on city streets, beaches and parks. Many of them show strangers from behind, caught in fleeting private moments in public spaces. They also invite the viewer to create narratives that extend beyond the edges of the photographs.
Orientalism and Ephemera Fri, 04 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) The every day presence of the Middle East in popular culture and art Episode 2.
Paradise and Kuba Wed, 02 Apr 2008 6:00:00 PDT (17.1 Mb) The Art Show is a podcast about visual arts in Vancouver, B.C. It will include interviews with local and visiting artists, reviews of exhibitions and news about what's happening in the region's art scene.