Thursday, January 28th, 2010
While Calgary is one of the world’s fastest growing cities, its downtown core is sorely lacking in the kinds of arts and entertainment centers that make a city a vital cultural hub. For residents of Calgary, the East Village is synonymous with drug addiction, prostitution, poverty and derelict ... more skinny
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Artist rendering of the golden carp temporary art project in Vladivostock, Russia Temporary art can take many forms and be expressed through varied media, including potassium solution... more skinny
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
In 1904 a groundbreaking civil engineering project was put into place on Calgary’s Bow River. A weir was erected with the intention of using water diverted from the river for agricultural and irrigation purposes in the local community.  While this addition solved the immediate, environment... more skinny
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Gao Brothers, a pair of Beijing artists, are no strangers to controversy. The duo have made a habit of repurposing some of history’s most notorious figures, taking them out of context and placing them in situations that seem almost tailor-made to stir up debate.  Their latest piece “Miss... more skinny
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
It seems hard to believe since so few people have ever heard of it, but Pasewalk, a tiny  town on the German-Polish border, not far from the banks of the Uecker River, had a lot to do with Hitler’s eventual rise to power. In the year 1918 Hitler lay in a military hospital in Pasewalk... more skinny
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