May 14, 2009
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AT THE CAC GALLERY, MON-FRI FROM 10-5
May 15-27: The Art of Nature - Bryony Wynne-Jones & her students; drawings & watercolours of botanicals & birds
Opening Reception: May 15, 6-9pm
*May 16, 7 pm: Collage Experimental Films and the Use of Film in Video/MediaNet’s Scott Amos
*May 22, 7-9 pm: Assume Nothing Art Crawl: CACGV will be open
*May 29, 7 pm: Book Launch w/ VI Sculptors Guild - The Life and Art of David Marshall” by Monica Ullman
*Tues June 2, 7 pm: An Evening of Poetry and Music - Anna Swannell, Dvora Levin, Anne M Kelly, KousKous.
May 14, 2009
On exhibit at the Winchester Gallery
Joe Norris (1924-1996)
At 2260 Oak Bay Avenue
May 3 – 23, 2009
Preview
Saturday, May 2, 2009 10 am -5:30 pm
(work subject to prior sale)
Visit website: Winchester Gallery
May 14, 2009
June 14, 2009 - Mad Hatter’s Tea Party 1:00pm-5:00pm.
Tickets available at the Gallery May 1, 2009. Dress to excess or your Sunday best.
Journey through the Art Gallery and the Asian garden for a whimsical, decadent afternoon. Sip exotic and unusual teas with sweet and savoury treats while enjoying games, riddles, fortune-telling, and auction. Don’t be late for this very important date! Supported by Silk Road, Pink Sugar and Little Piggy’s. Tickets $40.
For more information visit http://aggv.bc.ca
May 14, 2009
Andy Warhol's portrait of David Hockney, part of Pop Life: Art in a Material World. Photograph: PA
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Mark Brown
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 May 2009 16.46 BST
Tate Modern yesterday put out an appeal for identical twins to appear in their gallery. It shouldn’t be too arduous – just sit in front of a pair of Damien Hirst’s spot paintings while people look at you.
The call was made as details were announced of Tate Modern’s big autumn show, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, which will look at the legacy of Andy Warhol’s declaration that “good business is the best art”. The exhibition, three years in the planning, will look at subsequent artists at their most self-aggrandising – from Jeff Koons to Tracey Emin.
Tate Modern’s chief curator Sheena Wagstaff said they wanted to pinpoint the moment in the 1980s when “a key aspect of late Warhol became a thrilling legacy for subsequent generations of artists”. The show will explore how, after Warhol, artists have not only commented on the mass media culture of the last 30 years, but have been very much a part of it, infiltrating the cult of celebrity.
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