Guo Pei: Couture Beyond Vancouver Art Gallery October 13, 2018 – January 20, 2019 This season’s blockbuster, not-to-be-missed show at the Vancouver Art Gallery is Guo Pei: Couture Beyond. The Guo Pei exhibit features everything from Chinese wedding dresses, to religious iconography, to the dress worn by singer Rihanna at the Met Ball in 2015….
Tag: Fashion
Sculpting Art, Shoes and Life
I assumed it was going to be completely outside of the art circles I had been spinning in since moving to Vancouver “Sensual Tektonica” was the name of the Art Gala showcasing Rudolf Sokolovski‘s work. I don’t even know what Tektonica means, it was a formal event and it cost me $20 to get in….
Saturday Morning Update: Group Show at El Kartel
Well, it’s Saturday morning again blog followers. Coffee in hand? Great. Here’s a little update on my trip to El Kartel last Saturday night. The show was small but well curated. Because I love fashion and art I was looking for where the two came collide. Someone was paying attention to colour in the curation…
Underground Fashion in Vancouver
Although this blog is about art and fashion, it has been heavy on the art events. Art is what I’m familiar with; fashion is new to me. So when I discovered an underground fashion show with free, reserve in advance tickets, I jumped at the opportunity and saved two tickets. Not for the first time,…
New at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The most valuable purchase I have made since moving to Vancouver was to buy memberships to the Vancouver Art Gallery for myself and my son. When I brought the memberships home and showed them to my son he was interested. When I told him that the membership came with two extra passes and if…
The Case of The Missing Blue Poncho
“There’s nothing better than a car full of women with twenty years of life to catch up on, stuck in the lineup at the border” What does an all-girls weekend call for? Why crossing the border of course. There’s nothing better than a car full of women with twenty years of life to catch up on,…
Picasso at the Vancouver Art Gallery – What Is Great Art?
“The question my date asked was: ‘What makes a great artist?’” The question my date asked was: “What makes a great artist?” I was a little stumped. Four years studying art history hadn’t really prepared me to answer that question. I tried, with the typical caveats: “it depends who you ask”, “men were usually the…
YVR’s Jade Canoe Turns Twenty
On a beautiful sunny day in April, YVR celebrated 20 years since the Spirit of Haida Gwaii, The Jade Canoe arrived at the YVR airport. Bill Reid originally had the sculpture created as a 1/6 scale clay model and then later enlarged to its full size. This final clay version was then cast in bronze and…
A Steady Arm at the Yaletown Roundhouse
Yaletown Roundhouse – It was just a skytrain station stop up until the night I went to the Capture Photography opening at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. Construction of the original building took place in 1888. In 1980 plans to demolish it were waylaid by passionate train buffs and other supportive Vancouverites and the…
MashUp With the Whipper Snapper
The complimentary tickets to the Vancouver Art Gallery have been sitting in a cup on my desk for months now. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to go; it’s finding the time. It couldn’t be just anyone I went with, it had to be my son. That was the intent behind the gift. My coworker’s…
Sean Karemaker: Comics and the Child Within
After work at the airport I hopped on the skytrain and headed towards downtown. I had been invited to check out an artist’s new studio and pick some drawings for the art case displays at the airport; 5:00pm on a Tuesday I think it was. It was raining as is usual on a winter night…
Little City Arts 