"Fever Trees" by Rebecca Chaperon
Here’s another Centrefold gem from VR’s past. Specifically, this was in the Fall ’09 issue of VR. It is by Rebecca Chaperon and we’d like to remind you that all our Centrefold spreads are available as fine art prints. $250 gets you a signed, numbered, archival print from an edition of 20.
Marian Bantjes' Vancouver Skyline from VR #28
For those of you who, like us, have yearned for a more interesting vision for Vancouver’s waterfront architectural skyline we present this gem by designer Marian Bantjes. It was our final Centrefold and, like all our Centrefold art, it is available for purchase as part of an edition of 20 archival quality fine-art prints. This one is 30″ across and will be signed and numbered by Marian. Price per print is $250.00. For more information please contact: mrm@portal.ca.
In honour of Charlotte Gill’s recent nomination for the Charles Taylor prize for literary non-fiction and in anticipation of her upcoming reading at Project Space on the 28th, I thought I’d post these two versions of the cover for the issue that first featured Eating Dirt. For whatever reason, we decided against them but they do have their merits. I think the first one was nixed because I felt the pose seemed forced and the seedling too strategically placed in the glove. And if I recall correctly, the second didn’t seem to have enough overall front and centre power. In any case, we hope you enjoy them. I’ll post some more alternate covers in the coming months.
http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/eating-dirt
Sonny Assu signing the first artist’s proof of #Nostalgia8875 for a New York collector.
There are 5 of these 23″ by 38″ prints being made available for purchase at $500 each (+tax & shipping). There is also a smaller version available in an edition of 20 at $250 each. They are 11.25″ by 20″ and all VR fine art prints are printed to archival standards by Fidelis who do prints for exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery and who print the work of Fred Herzog, Rebecca Belmore, Roy Arden and many others.
In addition to Sonny’s new work we are still selling the complete selection of commissioned VR Centrefold art from the last 5 years of publishing the magazine. Watch this space as some of those works will be reproduced here!
For more information, or to order your print today, please e-mail mrm@portal.ca.
Maxine's Hideaway. Soon to (partially) grace the entrance to another condo tower at 1215 Bidwell St.
This is the current state of one of the west end of Vancouver’s great heritage buildings. Known as “Maxine’s Hideaway”, it spent its last days as a dinner/dance club. But the building has seen many incarnations over the years and was mentioned in connection with the city’s rum running history in Helen Eady’s “9 O’Clock Gun” feature in VR #27 (Winter 2010/11):
“A beauty school for girls a brothel, a criminal hideout, a nightclub and a cabaret all existed at 1215 Bidwell Street. Under this off-Davie institution are filled-in tunnels that once connected to the English Bay boat houses for rum-running.”
Sadly it is now another victim of the city’s relentless and unchecked development spree. Façadism at its worst.
