The Return of the Saucers!
VR contributor Neil Wedman currently has a show on at the Charles H. Scott Gallery on Granville Island. Titled: “Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper”, the show runs ’til February 24th. It features a selection of large paintings of underwater volcanoes, flying saucers and newspaper pages rendered in his uniquely muted and timeless style. [...]
Mazdala!
Here’s a nice little mention and repro from Sara Ross who not only featured in the Velo-City issue as a photo subject but had this piece in the VR’s Centrefold. http://redsara.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/sixty-four-mandala-old-work/
Eating Dirt revisited
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 [...]
Façadism revisited
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 [...]
Speaking of public art…
Timothy Taylor’s piece in VR #28, “Chaos and Planning”, was recently criticized for its lack of a mention of the public artworks of Doug Coupland. While the article was not intended as a comprehensive survey (its focus being mainly about policy and its effects) we would like to go on record as really loving this [...]