Library news

• May 22nd - June 27th
• Opening Friday, May 22 6-8 pm

Between May 15th to May 24th, Aaron Carpenter's new video, Finnigin Swake, will be presented on the Bonnis Media CoreVision dual outdoor screens at the intersection of Robson and Granville Streets. Read more

The Kamloops Art Gallery "is delighted to present the exhibition Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang: Sugar Bombs, April 5 to May 24, 2009. The artworks in Sugar Bombs invite us into an imaginative terrain where innocence and beauty meet violence.Diyan Achjadi's inkjet prints and Brendan Tang's conceptual ceramic sculptures juxtapose childlike playfulness with worldly tensions. They feature candy-coloured exploding volcanoes and rockets and imploding robots.

ArtBabble: "Indianapolis Museum of Art launches ArtBabble (www.artbabble.org), a site dedicated to art video content. It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives. ArtBabble was created so others will join in spreading the world of art through video." Read more

From Cool Hunting, a video by the Department of Eagles co-directed and inspired by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama.

Recently added to the collection: Bill Viola: "The Passing," Bill Viola: "I Don't know What it is I am like," "Liquid Tales: The Animated Films of Patrick Smith," "Jean Nouvel," "City2City," "Carts of Darkness," Abbas Kiarostami: "Wind Will Carry Us," Peter Greenaway: "The Pillow Book," Larry Clark: "Kids," Sofia Coppola:"Lost in Translation," "The Alfred Hitchock Masterpiece Collection," and Julian Schnabel: "Basquiat."

Canadian Art: "Self-fashioning and intertextuality come to the fore in "HF|RG," a joint retrospective of the multimedia work of Harun Faroki and Rodney Graham on view Apr. 7 to June 7." (Jeu de Paume, Paris)

New Museum: "For Younger Than Jesus," the first edition of “The Generational,” the New Museum’s new signature triennial, fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented. The only exhibition of its kind in the United States, “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will offer a rich, intricate, multidisciplinary exploration of the work being produced by a new generation of artists born after 1976.

Catriona Jeffries Gallery: "Kevin Schmidt's performance Epic Journey will take place on the evenings of 20 March – 22 March 2009. The event is weather contingent, so call 604 662 4747 extention 1 to confirm that the event is happening, or for the rescheduled date. The work involves a journey along the Fraser River. The main suggested viewpoint is Mitchell Island Pier, 11497 Twigg Place, Richmond on March 22 at 10pm."

From Bill Viola's website: "Presented as a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death, the video sequence documents a succession of individuals slowly approaching out of darkness and moving into the light. Each person must then breakthrough an invisible threshold of water and light in order to pass into the physical world." View the Youtube video.