The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more
The institution ended its partnership with the Swiss firm, begun nearly a decade ago, as it reassesses its plans
The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, based in the refurbished former home and studio of Carole Itter and Al Neil, is now moored near Vancouver’s Maritime Museum
The annual prize, which honours an artist based in British Columbia, comes with C$100,000 cash
Susanna Blunt alleges the dealer Benjamin Lumb promised to compensate her for a stolen piece and knocked over several works in a “domino effect”
Stan Douglas, Ken Lum, Douglas Coupland and others are helping efforts to raise C$8m for housing for Vancouver’s homeless
The celebratory event marked a major milestone in a process begun in 2004; the new building is expected to be complete in 2028
Marking the centennial of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the museum’s inaugural exhibition is “the story of the Chinese community’s darkest period in Canada”
The institution is scheduled to open in summer 2023 inside the oldest building in Vancouver’s Chinatown
After coming up among the Vancouver School’s photo-conceptualists, Graham struck out on his own singular, irreverent pursuits
The fresh funding means the gallery has raised C$270m toward the project’s overall cost of C$400m
Kerbel’s new solo exhibition at Catriona Jeffries gallery in Vancouver, the artist is debuting two new performance works
The Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan’s installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver re-stages a scene captured at the Iraq Museum in 2003
The University of British Columbia has acquired a copy of the ‘First Folio’ that helped preserve some of the bard’s most famous plays, including ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Tempest’
New gallery by Herzog & de Meuron to be built in Vancouver’s Larwill Park after consultation with artists from Indigenous groups
Only five of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Headless Walking Figures remain outside City Hall, as demand for the artist’s work has grown
Two public projects launching this week highlight the Canadian city’s booming developments, in which only a select few can afford to live
The property, bequeathed to the district by a physician friend of the artist for use as an arts centre, has been neglected for decades
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
Voxel Bridge, by the Colombian artist Jessica Angel, turns a venerable piece of city infrastructure into a hybrid immersive art work
After popping up in Vancouver, an installation of figures made from trash travels to Toronto and Quebec City
The new education centre on Granville Island with arts, music, film and dance studios, will serve 24,000 student annually
The images of sleeping people were too creepy for many residents, in a city where property values are a major concern
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
A writer’s complaints about downtown tagging were met with accusations of classism—and a new mural
Slogans for the 21st Century are on view in the city's new Arbutus Greenway
Proto-Riot Grrrl Jean Smith plans to launch space to support international artists
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
The institution is looking for a permanent home in the city’s historic Chinatown
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