Library news

The Vancouver Museum is the place to be (really?) on Thursday April 24 for the opening of their hot new show on 20 of Vancouver's best and brightest designers. Read more about it here and click here to visit the exhibition.

The current issue of Artkrush spotlights several Mexican artists for this month’s FEMACO art fair in Mexico City, “spanning from the lucha libre-inspired performances and large serial installations of Carlos Amorales to Teresa Margolles' morbid reflections on death.”

Introducing new search functionality at the ECI Library! You can quickly access the library catalogue with a keyword search in that search box you see in the upper right corner. Go on, give it a try, we know you'll like it.

Chill out with Art Talk!, a series of online video interviews featuring notable Canadian artists AA Bronson, Ryan Foerster and Aurel Schmidt and others. It also features a long video profile on Richard Prince (not the Canadian one).

Want to read a curated blog about art, some of it bad, some of it for bad people? Then go to the Happy Famous Artists blog. They are an "artistic collective combining ideas of intelligensius anarchus and Jeff Blind."

Congrats to the following GG Award winners for artistic achievement: Kenojuak Ashevak, Serge Giguère, Michel Goulet, Alex Janvier, Tanya Mars and Eric Metcalfe; excellence in the fine crafts: Chantal Gilbert; and, outstanding contribution award: Shirley Thomson.

Want to know what’s going on in international art and design? Artkrush is a bimonthly email magazine covering the key figures, exhibitions, and trends you need to know about. Click here to receive the email magazine.

From the NY Times Magazine: "Beyond the much-hyped art-fashion nexus, Miuccia Prada has been quietly building her own art foundation for a decade. Can a Rem Koolhaas-designed museum lift it to new heights?".

What's happening to artist spaces in downtown Vancouver? The answer is condos, and Trevor Boddy is not very happy about what this means for Vancouver's arts and culture scene. Read on.

Did you know that the library subscribes to STASH? It’s a DVD magazine of animation, VFX and computer graphics for design and advertising. It features animation houses like The Embassy and Psyop. Check the DVD shelves for the latest issue.