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‘What they could have become’: artist Johnny Bandura creates mural imagining the lost futures of 215 Kamloops children
The Qayqayt First Nation artist has created vivid portraits of the residential school victims whose lives were cut short
Vancouver public sculpture is for the birds no more
Stacked car installation that became a roost for local pigeons and starlings—and was covered by their poo—will be restored and eventually relocated
Joe Average unveils new mural honouring the fight against Aids in Vancouver
Marking the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of the disease in the US, the Canadian artist and activist expands his One World, One Hope design to a city-sized work
Vancouver Biennale opens a bridge into the digital world
Voxel Bridge, by the Colombian artist Jessica Angel, turns a venerable piece of city infrastructure into a hybrid immersive art work
'I want the UN to come and see what has happened here': Canadian Indian residential school survivor speaks out for victims in his art
Vancouver-based Cowichan/Syilx artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun creates new work in memory of dead Indigenous children
Vancouver residents launch petition to block Boy Holding a Shark public art ‘monstrosity’
Locals cite concerns about property values, obstructed views of nature and the ethnicity of the artist, but Vancouver Biennial organisers say the work will act as a warning beacon for ocean conservation
Sea junk sculptures draw crowds in Canada for World Oceans Day
After popping up in Vancouver, an installation of figures made from trash travels to Toronto and Quebec City
Haida artist Tamara Bell installs 215 shoes on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential school
The work has become a community shrine and gathering space for mourners after the remains of children as young as three years old were discovered last week using ground-penetrating radar
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect known as the ‘Queen of Green’, has died, aged 99
Responsible for green spaces that still provide respite to city dwellers around the world, the designer saw her profession as a kind of healing art
Artist-run Dar Jacir Center in Bethlehem damaged
A newsletter issued by the cultural facility, founded by sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir, says its office was ransacked and equipment was stolen
At an art school in Gaza, creation prevails amid destruction
Bombings have halted classes in the city’s only accredited arts academy, but its founder keeps hope alive
Arts Umbrella, Canada’s largest culture educator, opens new $27m home in Vancouver
The new education centre on Granville Island with arts, music, film and dance studios, will serve 24,000 student annually
Work for the Weekend: Vancouver unveils sound piece inspired by 1980s working-class pop anthem
The public art work by the local artist Brady Cranfield has been installed in the Vancouver Art Gallery's newly pedestrianised south plaza
They see ‘dead people’: billboard works removed from Vancouver photography festival after locals complain
The images of sleeping people were too creepy for many residents, in a city where property values are a major concern
A tribute to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the landscape architect who shaped Vancouver’s greenspaces
A joint retrospective organised by the West Vancouver Art Museum and Art Gallery of Alberta beautifully expresses the designer’s passion for nature and understanding of community needs
Vancouver’s street artists respond to columnist’s graffiti gripes with painted ‘letter to the editor’
A writer’s complaints about downtown tagging were met with accusations of classism—and a new mural
Douglas Coupland brings his prophetic slogans to Vancouver's billboards
Slogans for the 21st Century are on view in the city's new Arbutus Greenway
New Art Gallery of Nova Scotia building is inspired by indigenous Mi’kmaq culture
The winning design is meant to be both a centrepiece of Halifax’s burgeoning waterfront arts district and an earnest symbol of reconciliation, the project leads say
Never before seen Emily Carr works go from family fireplace to Canadian museum
British Columbia brothers donate paintings their grandmothers acquired to Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Vancouver painter’s $100 Facebook portraits raise more than $150,000 for residency project
Proto-Riot Grrrl Jean Smith plans to launch space to support international artists
Mural memorialises Vancouver’s lost historic Black neighbourhood
Hogan’s Alley was once a thriving hub of Black Canadian culture, before it was demolished like so many communities in the name of urban renewal
Chinese Canadian Museum opens in Vancouver with pop-up show centred on food
The institution is looking for a permanent home in the city’s historic Chinatown
Haida artist Bill Reid honoured on Canadian $2 coin
The new “toonie” features an image of Reid’s striking Xhuwaji/Haida Grizzly Bear
A global pandemic brings new life to Palestinian artist's face masks
Gazan-born artist Mohammed Musallam finds new meaning in a past face mask project, which is based upon a traditional keffiyeh design
Unesco's plan to ‘revive spirit’ of devastated Mosul gets under way
Initiative involves local communities in rebuilding their historic landmarks and neighbourhoods
Iran's leading artist Parviz Tanavoli makes nightingale medallions to help hospitals in his native country
The artist says Iran has been “devastated” by the crisis, which he adds has been exacerbated by US sanctions
Vancouver street artists provide coronavirus advice to Canada’s most vulnerable communities
City council is collaborating with mural makers to paint storefronts that have closed due to Covid-19 in a neighbourhood already suffering from the opioid crisis
Restorers making headway in rehabilitation of Erbil Citadel
After setbacks related to ISIS's offensive, preservationists in northern Iraq report progress
Canadian Modernist painter Gordon Smith has died, aged 100
The Vancouver-based artist, one of the last of a generation that shaped the city’s mid-century cultural scene, was known for his monumental abstract canvases inspired by nature
Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier creates a ‘class-warfare’ debate in Vancouver
Installation in gentrified area is criticised as artists are priced out of the city's housing market