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Cost of Vancouver Art Gallery's new building balloons by 50%, reaching $444m
The museum’s director claimed the sharp increase was due to a precipitous rise in construction costs in recent years, though a prominent collector called this explanation “preposterous”
A tangled mess: Canadian forgery scandal comes into full public view
An exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery grapples with how the museum ended up with ten fake works previously attributed to J.E.H. MacDonald, a member of the famous Group of Seven
Vancouver Art Gallery launches construction of new $295m building with ceremony, donation and new acquisitions
The celebratory event marked a major milestone in a process begun in 2004; the new building is expected to be complete in 2028
Curator Eva Respini joins Vancouver Art Gallery at transformative moment for the institution
Respini, previously the chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, comes to the Vancouver museum as it plans a major building project
Abenaki artist and film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s remarkable career comes into focus at the Vancouver Art Gallery
A survey of the 90-year-old activist, artist and documentarian’s tells a parallel story about the shifting relationship between Canada and its First Nations peoples
Emily Carr painting, unseen for more than a half-century, acquired by Canada’s Audain Art Museum
The painting was one of four Carr works featured in the first Canadian presentation at the Venice Biennale, in 1952
Climate activists pour maple syrup on Emily Carr painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Two activists from the group Stop Fracking Around also glued their hands to the gallery wall to protest the construction of a major gas pipeline in northern British Columbia
Vancouver Art Gallery gets $29m in federal funding toward future Herzog & de Meuron home
The fresh funding means the gallery has raised C$270m toward the project’s overall cost of C$400m
Rare Shakespeare First Folio acquired by Canadian university to go on view at Vancouver Art Gallery
The University of British Columbia has acquired a copy of the ‘First Folio’ that helped preserve some of the bard’s most famous plays, including ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Tempest’
Vancouver Art Gallery will put largest-ever cash donation to a Canadian art museum toward new building
New gallery by Herzog & de Meuron to be built in Vancouver’s Larwill Park after consultation with artists from Indigenous groups
Haida artist Tamara Bell installs 215 shoes on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential school
The work has become a community shrine and gathering space for mourners after the remains of children as young as three years old were discovered last week using ground-penetrating radar
Work for the Weekend: Vancouver unveils sound piece inspired by 1980s working-class pop anthem
The public art work by the local artist Brady Cranfield has been installed in the Vancouver Art Gallery's newly pedestrianised south plaza
Vancouver street photographer Fred Herzog has died, age 88
The German-born Canadian captured a view of the city that has since been lost, but he did not receive major recognition until late in life
Vancouver's art market sees influx of Chinese cash
As British Columbia clamps down on foreign real estate investment, Chinese collectors are investing in contemporary Canadian art with "no expense spared”
Vancouver Art Gallery staff strike continues
Union boss calls museum's recent offer "an insult"
After a decade of delays, Vancouver Art Gallery gets $40m boost for new building
The local philanthropic Chan family has reinvigorated the long-awaited expansion with an “unprecedented” gift