MONTECRISTO

Artist Kathy Zhang

Although Kathy Zhang’s work can easily be called things of beauty, her elaborate realist paintings of ornate home interiors find a comfortable milieu in this city, where the artistic practice is often laden with critical theory and conceptualism.

Damian Moppett

There is something very compelling about an artist’s studio; a den of creativity, it can take many forms. For Vancouver’s Damian Moppett, the studio often becomes the very subject of his work.

Art School Graduation Exhibitions

A selection of arresting pieces from a tour of graduation exhibitions at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Simon Fraser University, and Capilano University in 2011.

Conches

In Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, they know their conch.

Artist Steven Shearer

When the National Gallery of Canada came knocking with an invitation for Steven Shearer to show his work at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the artist hesitated. It poses the question: you can take the boy out of the basement, but can you take the basement out of the boy?

Paintings by Holger Kalberg

Painter Holger Kalberg’s works are a “space where people can enter and make up their own narrative”.

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is one of the world’s most important art collections you’ve probably never heard of.

A Taste of Spain’s Culinary Scene

You can tell a lot about a country by what, and how, its people eat.

Artist Liz Magor

Liz Magor is a contemporary artist with roots in the exploration of identity and retreat, and whose works express an appreciation for materials and her fascination with nature and refuge.

James Nizam’s Abandoned Spaces

For artist James Nizam, home is a word full of innuendo.