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By Catherine Falls. Installed throughout the grounds of two major Vancouver institutions, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds’s Native Hosts subverts common ideological beliefs regarding land ownership within British Columbia. Focusing on the work’s reversal of the generally accepted guest/host relationship between First Nations and Western communities, this paper will examine the ways in which Native Hosts performs [...]

By Perrin Grauer. This essay pursues the theoretical significance of the ways in which early modern painterly practice differed from its art-historical precedent. An examination of twentieth-century critical and theoretical literature, combined with a visual analysis of the work of Caravaggio, focusing on his Young Sick Bacchus (1593), elucidates the ways in which the artist’s [...]

By Jordan Lypkie. This essay charts the complexity of two recent public artworks by Stan Douglas and Ken Lum, installed in Vancouver on the occasion of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, through their formal engagement with the local discourse of art and their inversion and subversion of images and forms of representation. The connection of these works [...]

By Sophia Zweifel. The following essay places renewed focus on the art of Los Angeles artist Wallace Berman and his contemporary bohemian circle, made up of artists and beatniks. Whereas previous writings on Berman’s work have tended to fixate on how his art facilitated or negotiated relationships between members of his tight-knit group, this study [...]