Claude Monet’s Secret Garden at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Revisiting Monet’s painting prime.
The most important exhibition of the 19th-century French painter’s work in Canada in over two decades makes its only North American pit-stop.
Exhibits
Montreal in Love: Embracing Diversity
A romantic photography exhibit.
A collection of portraits capturing 30 intercultural Montreal couples in sweet, personal moments.
Japan Unlayered in Vancouver
Eastern culture at the Pacific Rim.
Interconnected mini-exhibits and pop-ups celebrating contemporary Japanese architecture, design, and cuisine.
She Photographs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The female gaze.
On now until February 19 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, She Photographs encourages its audience to consider the role of contemporary photography from a female perspective.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Photography’s shock king.
Once dubbed the “Hustler with a Hasselblad,” American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe never played it safe behind a camera—or in front of it.
Artist Pierre Huyghe
Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) at the Luminato Festival.
Until June 26, 2016, attendees to Toronto’s Luminato Festival may bear witness to a strange nude lounging among weeds and cement rubble near the Hearn Generating Station.
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei
Contemporary icons in contrast.
In partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum is debuting its new show Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei.
MashUp
The Vancouver Art Gallery takes on the birth of modern culture.
Upon entering the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new MashUp exhibit, visitors are immediately immersed in a massive site-specific instillation by 71-year-old L.A.-based conceptual artist Barbara Kruger. The piece, Untited (SmashUp), spirals around the room; its bold text warning us to beware of treating life like a spectacle, its emoji-esque faces staring through comma-eyes.
Olafur Eliasson’s Baroque Baroque
The Winter Palace exhibition, Vienna.
The selected works, on loan from two private collections, start off with a subtle nod to The Weather Project: the grandiose palace entry hall is awash in orange light. Illuminated, the visitor becomes part of the art, moving through spaces moulded by Eliasson’s manipulations of mirrors and light.
