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News → 04 Dec 2024

Reading Room: Town + Country

This reading room offers resources relating to the themes and artists present in the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital.  

News → 02 Dec 2024

Remembering Anna Banana (1940-2024)

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…

News → 28 Oct 2024

Works from the Collection: Kate Craig, Pink Dress

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…

News → 21 Aug 2024

Reading Room: That Directionless Light of the Future: Rediscovering Russell FitzGerald

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…

News → 21 Aug 2024

Reading Room: An Opulence of Squander

Curated by Weiyi Chang, An Opulence of Squander brings together works from the Belkin’s collection and archive with artists that consider concepts of surplus and excess to question the dual ascription of artistic work as a form of both luxury and waste. This reading room offers resources relating to the…