Picks of the week - September 28, 2012

 

 
 
 
 
The Vancouver Art Gallery gets conceptual for its newest exhibit. Running Sept. 29 to Jan. 20, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 showcases hundreds of groundbreaking works by more than 90 artists from across Canada. In addition to performance art, film and video art, the exhibit features early works by Toronto’s General Idea and Vancouver artists Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall and Vincent Trasov’s Mr. Peanut campaign. For more information, go to vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604-662-4700.
 

The Vancouver Art Gallery gets conceptual for its newest exhibit. Running Sept. 29 to Jan. 20, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 showcases hundreds of groundbreaking works by more than 90 artists from across Canada. In addition to performance art, film and video art, the exhibit features early works by Toronto’s General Idea and Vancouver artists Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall and Vincent Trasov’s Mr. Peanut campaign. For more information, go to vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604-662-4700.

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The Vancouver Art Gallery gets conceptual for its newest exhibit. Running Sept. 29 to Jan. 20, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 showcases hundreds of groundbreaking works by more than 90 artists from across Canada. In addition to performance art, film and video art, the exhibit features early works by Toronto’s General Idea and Vancouver artists Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall and Vincent Trasov’s Mr. Peanut campaign. For more information, go to vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604-662-4700.
 

The Vancouver Art Gallery gets conceptual for its newest exhibit. Running Sept. 29 to Jan. 20, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 showcases hundreds of groundbreaking works by more than 90 artists from across Canada. In addition to performance art, film and video art, the exhibit features early works by Toronto’s General Idea and Vancouver artists Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall and Vincent Trasov’s Mr. Peanut campaign. For more information, go to vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604-662-4700.

Photograph by: submitted , for Vancouver Courier

 
The Vancouver Art Gallery gets conceptual for its newest exhibit. Running Sept. 29 to Jan. 20, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 showcases hundreds of groundbreaking works by more than 90 artists from across Canada. In addition to performance art, film and video art, the exhibit features early works by Toronto’s General Idea and Vancouver artists Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall and Vincent Trasov’s Mr. Peanut campaign. For more information, go to vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604-662-4700.
The Word On The Street returns for its 18th bookish year, Sept. 28 to 30, with the main event taking over Library Square and CBC Plaza Sunday, Sept. 30, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The literary street festival features writing and publishing exhibits, roving performers, children’s activities, workshops, panels, books, magazines, a poetry tent and readings from the likes of Annabel Lyon, W.P. Kinsella, Yasuko Thanh, Billie Livingston, Arthur Black, George Bowering, Billeh Nickerson, Elizabeth Bachinsky and Kevin Chong, to name a few. More info at thewordonthestreet.ca/Vancouver.
Matt Clarke adapts Kurt Vonnegut’s 1951 short story The Euphio Question for the stage and brings it to Granville Island’s Carousel Theatre Oct. 2 to 7. Not only does the sci-fi tale tell the story of a young physicist who discovers radio frequencies that when amplified and broadcast have a euphoric effect on humans, the play features music from local psychedelic rock band Sunny Pompeii. Far out, man. Tickets at the door. For more info, email littlemountainlion@gmail.com.
Musical mayhem: Baltimore’s Beach House brings its ethereal indie charms to the Commodore for a sold-out show Oct. 1. Brazilian American singer Bebel Gilberto brings the bossa nova beat to the Rio Theatre, Oct. 2. Tickets at Zulu, Redcat and High Life Records. More info at riotheatre.ca. Swellegant Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs solo at the Orpheum, Oct. 2. For tickets and info, call 604-876-3434 or go to vancouversymphony.ca.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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