Friday June 19th, 2026 Relocation of popular public sculpture called off after Vancouver residents claim it would block their views Hadani Ditmars, The Art Newspaper, August 8, 2025. The dispute over the future location of “Trans Am Rapture” has prompted duelling petitions, with the municipal government calling off the reinstallation to find a new site. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 Pemberton’s Newest Mural December 9, 2025, Update: March 11, 2026, Pemberton Valley Lodge. Pemberton Valley Supermarket Mural. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 Latincouver interview with Chiachio & Giannone (Argentina) Latinouver, Aug 27, 2025. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 New petition blames NIMBYism for City of Vancouver’s u-turn on controversial sculpture of stacked cars Kenneth Chan, Daily Hive, Aug 5 2025. A growing group of Vancouver residents, artists, and public art supporters are rallying behind an online counter petition calling on the City of Vancouver to reverse its decision to cancel the reinstallation of Trans Am Rapture — formerly known as “Trans Am Totem” — at the southwest loop of the Granville Street Bridge. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 Petition: Keep Trans Am Rapture at Granville and 4th Michael R, Change.org, August 2, 2025. We have started this petition to stop the cancellation of "Trans Am Rapture" in the new site of Granville Loop Park at Granville between 4th and 5th. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 Vancouver’s Trans Am Rapture sculpture goes from iconic to controversial John Mackie, Vancouver Sun, Aug 01, 2025. It was so popular that Lululemon founder Chip Wilson donated $250,000 to save it for Vancouver's public art program. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 City of Vancouver backtracks on relocation of ‘iconic’ Trans Am Rapture art piece CBC News with files from Shaurya Kshatri and Lauren Vanderdeen, July 31, 2025. The installation was meant to move to the south end of Granville Bridge, but some residents pushed back. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 City of Vancouver hits reverse on plan to put controversial stacked cars public art by Granville Bridge Brendan Kergin, Vancouver Is Awesome, July 30, 2025. The piece, now known as "Trans Am Rapture," will find its new home somewhere else. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 Buschlen Mowatt Nichol Foundation Award Fund and Vancouver Biennale “Art Attack” Award Encourage Recipients to Pursue their Curiosities Emily Carr University, July 22, 2025. Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) marked the launch of two new long-term award funds directly supporting emerging artists at an event with Barrie Mowatt, Murray Nichol, and Kirsten Larsen. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 Public art made of stacked cars to reappear in new Vancouver location Brendan Kergin,Vancouver Is Awesome, Mar 27, 2025. After four years in storage, the Trans Am Totem will tower above a new spot in Vancouver. Learn more Friday June 19th, 2026 New virtual reality app puts user in the shoes of ecological destroyer Mina Kerr-Lazenby, North Shore News, Apr 27, 2023. Vancouver Biennale’s Unceded Territories is part interactive VR experience, part art activism. Learn more Monday May 4th, 2026 Vancouver Biennale names senior curator for 2027-29 edition Hadani Ditmars, The Art Newspaper, Thursday April 23, 2026. This marks a return to Vancouver for the Brazilian curator Marcello Dantas, who organised a Vik Muniz project in the city as part of the biennale’s 2013-15 edition. Learn more Tuesday May 24th, 2022 48 hours in Vancouver: The ultimate guide for visitors (PHOTOS) Sheri Radford, Daily Hive,  May 20, 2022 Learn more Tuesday April 19th, 2022 Weaving Stories Amy Kenny | Yukon Arts Centre Learn more Friday April 1st, 2022 A look at Vancouver’s most thought-provoking public art Sarah Anderson, April 1/22 Learn more Wednesday March 23rd, 2022 Lifshutz says sculpture he brought to downtown San Antonio ‘mocks’ Lenin, Mao Ben Olivo, San Antonio Heron,  March 23, 2022 Learn more Friday March 18th, 2022 Provocative Lenin and Mao sculpture arrives in downtown San Antonio Nicholas Frank, Mar 18, 2022, San Antonio Report Learn more Monday February 28th, 2022 How do we deal with controversial monuments that are also part of Vancouver’s history? Gordon McIntyre | Vancouver Sun Learn more Thursday October 4th, 2018 Best of Vancouver – Best Surreal Setting for Art Patricia Piccinini's "Curious Imaginings" exhibition featured as The Georgia Straight's "Best Surreal Setting for Art" in its Best of Vancouver 2018 edition.     Learn more Tuesday September 25th, 2018 Art installation explores curious and complex relationship between humans and animals Hyperrealist installation Curious Imaginings is on display in a wing of the 105-year-old Patricia Hotel in Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood. Part of the Vancouver Biennale, some of the shocking yet fascinating sculptures of hybrid animals by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini include a humanoid beaver, a half-human/half-orangutan mother and a family of humanesque pigs. Piccinini says the sculptures say a lot about people's relationships to animals. "I think they're asking some very important questions like, what is our relationship to the nature that we're changing around us?" Piccinini told CBC's Margaret Gallagher.   Learn more