Monday October 19th, 2015 Blue Trees public art pigmenting party will bring attention to deforestation Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos is concerned we might not be seeing the forest for the trees when it comes to the effects of deforestation. In an effort to create awareness about the world's dwindling forests and resulting climate change, he's launched an initiative called Blue Trees. Learn more Thursday October 15th, 2015 What’s happening in New West? Top weekend picks for Oct. 16 to 18 Shopping, learning and getting entertained - you can do it all in New West this weekend. Here are the Record's top picks for the Oct. 16 to 18 weekend in New Westminster. 1. Attend a pigmenting party on the lawn of city hall, Australian artist Konstantin Dimopolous drops by to launch the Blue Trees installation that’s part of the Vancouver Biennale installation in New Westminster. Community members are invited to attend the pigmenting party on the front lawn of city hall, 511 Royal Ave., on Sunday, Oct. 18 from noon to 3 p.m. Learn more Thursday October 15th, 2015 New Westminster Blue Trees project points to problem of deforestation Song sung blue, weeping like a maple. It doesn’t quite have the cachet of the old Neil Diamond tune that wept like a willow, but the art project Blue Trees would like you to take a moment and, if not weep, at least think about the plight of trees in parts of the world where deforestation is ongoing. Learn more Monday October 5th, 2015 Council approves money for Blue Trees Be on the lookout for blue trees, now that council has narrowly passed a motion Tuesday night to pay $7,500 to the Vancouver Biennale for the Blue Trees installation. Blue Trees is the last project in the 2014-2016 Vancouver Biennale in Squamish. Learn more Monday October 5th, 2015 Best of Vancouver 2015: Arts For the Georgia Straight’s 20th annual Best of Vancouver issue, our editorial team provides some insight into the irreverent details that make our city great. Here’s our contributors’ picks for Best of Vancouver 2015. Learn more Thursday October 1st, 2015 Listening to myself 朱诺奖得主 Vivian Fung 的创作世界 两年一度的温哥华双年展于今秋重新返乡，这一次的活动比以往涉足了更为广泛的艺术领域并第一次纳入了音乐元素。作为这一盛宴的共同缔造者，加拿大华裔女作曲家Vivian Fung在各项展出作品中寻找灵感谱写了长达25分钟的交响乐《Biennale Snapshots》，而生活中她也用心做好每一件事，努力谱写着自己的人生篇章。 Learn more Thursday October 1st, 2015 SLIDE AWAY SLIDE AWAY: John Harvey, Barrie Mowatt, Squamish Mayor Patricia Heintzman, Suzie Beliveau and Ammar Mahimwalla cut the ribbon at the opeing of the play park in the Smoke Bluffs Park. Learn more Thursday October 1st, 2015 FUN AT THE PARK FUN AT THE PARK: On Saturday the community came together to celebrate the opening of a new playground in the Smoke Bluffs Park. Learn more Thursday October 1st, 2015 Editor’s Choice ART INSPIRING ART ART INSPIRING ART When the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra kicks off its season, it'll feature a new work that plays on the public art you've see around the city this summer. Vivian Fung's Biennale Snapshots draws from the Vancouver Biennale's outdoor sculptures. Learn more Tuesday September 29th, 2015 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s season opener charms and challenges At the Orpheum on Saturday, September 26. Continues on September 28 There are some soloists who seem as though they are fighting an orchestra during a performance: pushing or pulling at the tempo, their body furiously pulsing, with nary a glance at their accompanying musicians. Violinist Miriam Fried is not such a player...This was not the only draw of the evening, however: the world premiere of Vivian Fung’sBiennale Snapshots opened the second half of the concert.   Learn more Thursday September 17th, 2015 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Opening Weekend Set To Sparkle Consider the start-up event of the new classical music season to be the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s opening weekend, which arrives right at the end of September this year. Invariably, the VSO goes out of its way to make the event memorable. Months ago, while maestro Bramwell Tovey and I talked about his stepping down as music director at the end of the 2017/18 season, we touched on the complications of a steady stream of guest conductors test-driving the orchestra. Tovey candidly discussed the programming challenges, ending with a confession: “I want to keep some of the good stuff for myself.” Learn more Friday September 11th, 2015 Marcus Bowcott: Trans Am Totem puts cars on a pedestal One of the first sculptural pieces by Marcus Bowcott that I saw made me laugh. It was a small ceramic sculpture – about the size of maquette  – of several squashed cars and a Humvee all in a pale shade of green in an exhibition at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. As I described it in a review five years ago, I associated the colour more with “Martha Stewart than with a tough-looking civilian vehicle modeled after a military vehicle.” Learn more Wednesday September 9th, 2015 “Biennale Snapshots” by Vivian Fung Visual meets aural Biennale Snapshots with the Vancouver Symphony celebrates the Vancouver Biennale’s 2014–16 installations. It is the first musical composition to be commissioned by the Biennale. The 25-minute work is set in five movements, the first and second of which are played without pause. As the composer of the work, I chose to pay homage to the Biennale by selecting five different artworks from the exhibition and having each movement act as my musical “snapshot” of the art piece, allowing the visual to inspire the aural. Learn more Wednesday September 2nd, 2015 Vancouver Biennale brings Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States to the masses A new 12-part series by acclaimed director Oliver Stone is coming to Vancouver. Called The Untold Story of the United States, the documentary project was picked up by the Vancouver Biennale, a non-profit organization that describes itself as a celebration of art in public space. Learn more Tuesday September 1st, 2015 Miguel Horn sculpts an expanding career Five years ago, Miguel Horn returned to Philadelphia after living and working in Mexico as the assistant to acclaimed sculptor Javier Marin. An ambitious artist with Colombian and Venezuelan roots whose vision spans multiple communities and continents, Horn finds himself today, at 31, at a crossroads and immersed in determining the direction of his career. While public-art commissions punctuate his practice as a sculptor, he balances his portfolio with individual sculptures that express his inner psyche. Learn more Thursday August 20th, 2015 Flare Localist: The Art Scene is Booming You don't need to muse on white walls to stay on the cutting edge. Walk around the seawall for an up-close-and-personal interaction with Yue Minjun's A-Maze-ing Laughter (2009) sculpture (a pricey gift to the city from Lululemon founder Chip Wilson). Or keep heading up False Creek and you'll run smack into the latest Vancouver Biennale offering: Marcus Bowcott's Trans Am Totem (2015, pictured), a 10-metre-high mash-up of Northwest culture featuring an old-growth cedar trunk topped with five scrap cars. Learn more Saturday August 15th, 2015 Human Structures- Jonathan Borofsky Learn more Tuesday August 11th, 2015 Central Lonsdale Art Central Lonsdale is home to some rather large feet. The outside art installation is called Walking Figures and features a set of nine cast iron sculptures dispersed along Lonsdale Avenue between 13th and 23rd streets. According to a previous North Shore News story, the headless, armless human forms are the handiwork of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, who has been described as one of the top 40 most significant artists in the contemporary art world. Learn more Friday August 7th, 2015 Urban Escapes: Public Art of the Biennale Follow the curve of the Vancouver Seawall and you're likely to come across a public sculpture. The Vancouver Biennale, a non-profit, charitable organization, has various pieces of public art scattered throughout the city, engaging community and inspiring audiences in unexpected ways. Learn more Tuesday August 4th, 2015 Vancouver Biennale Artist: Cosimo Cavallaro (Italy/Canada) For its 3rd edition, the Vancouver Biennale has invited Virginie Lamarche and Bastien Desfriches Doria of VNB Photo to create a new photographic portfolio in documentation of all guest artists, curators and residency coordinators involved with the 2014-2016 Vancouver Biennale programs. Learn more