As we remember BC artist Anna Banana (1940-2024), who was a pioneer in the mail art movement from 1971, we are pleased to share her 1998 work Bananas in Distress, newly digitized thanks to the generous support of the BC History Digitization Program at UBC.
This reading room offers resources relating to the themes and artists present in the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital.
The Belkin shares the community’s sadness at the recent passing of artist Anna Banana on November 29 in Sechelt, BC. Born in Victoria as Anne Lee Long, Anna Banana was a conceptual, performance and mail artist who adopted her pseudonym in 1971 when she began corresponding with the international mail…
Audrey Chan and Shabnam Shahkarami consider Kate Craig's Pink Dress (1975) in this instalment of Works from the Collection, which considers works in the Belkin’s permanent collections in conversation with ongoing exhibitions, programs and the world around us. This entry is part of a series written by students in the 2023/24…
Curated by Jon Davies, That Directionless Light of the Future: Rediscovering Russell FitzGerald features rarely seen works by American artist and writer Russell FitzGerald (1932-78) and his contemporaries, largely from the Bay Area, to explore how secret and subcultural knowledge complicates archiving and transmission. This reading room offers resources relating to…