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Looking for a small gift for someone? You can support contemporary art in Vancouver and spread some culture by buying one or more of our Pitt publications, made one-at-a-time by Publication Studio Vancouver. How about: Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again, a book of full-size reproductions of exhibition posters, gig posters and ephemera from 1979-1984, containing…

Our series of artist commissions riffing on the wrong side of history, Ill Repute, is going to wrap up in the next month with a frenzy of activity. First, look for the launch of We Give A Shit Because We Care on Friday, December 2nd. This is another project drawing on the social networks that…

Even when we’re closed, there’s still something to look at, every evening from 8 to 11pm. Right now, it’s a playlist put together for Patrick Cruz’s installation Yin Yang Temple (you can also see the installation part of this project at night if you peek through the bars around our doors). In the coming weeks,…

Here’s a nice image: Wil George and series co-curator Cease Wyss singing a welcoming song at Wil’s book launch for Survival In Its Many Shapes, last Saturday at the Pitt. It was a great day, complete with bannock and tea brewed with freshly-picked herbs, a song, and readings from Wil’s book (available online soon, but…

Thanks to everyone who came out for Wil George‘s book launch today, and especially to Wil for reading from his work and to Cease Wyss who not only curated this part of the Ill Repute series but also made the tea (from freshly picked herbs!) and bannock for this afternoon’s event. We’ll be putting video…