Canadian Art Chronology Category=Vancouver Art and Artists, 1931-1983 980 events found. Sort By Event / Sort By Date  / Timeline view 1931   Emily Carr exhibits works, Ontario Society of Artists' Annual, Toronto; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON. Henri Matisse exhibition, Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA, USA Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston exhibition, Vanderpant Galleries, Vancouver Jock Macdonald illustrates the book The Neighing North, Canada Royal Bank building opens, Vancouver, BC Sergei Rachmaninov Recital, Granville Street Theatre, Vancouver Canadian Census, Canada Radio Broadcasting comes under federal jurisdiction, Canada   January   The Romance of Canada live drama, Montreal, Quebec   August   Canadian Pacific Exhibition, Hastings Park, Vancouver   October   Vancouver Art Gallery opens, Vancouver, BC   November   Newer Super-realism exhibition, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA Whitney Museum of American Art opens, New York, NY, USA   December   Last exhibition of the Group of Seven, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto Statute of Westminister becomes law, Britain First Exhibition at the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1932   Burrard Street Bridge opens, Vancouver, BC Canadian Radio broadcasting Commission established, Canada Chagall, Kandinsky, Rivera, Vlaminck exhibition, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, USA Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded, Canada Emily Carr works exhibited, Canada/USA f64 group is formed, San Francisco,CA, USA Hans Hofmann moves to New York City, New York, NY, USA Harry Tauber lecture, Vanderpant Galleries, Vancouver Surrealist Exhibition in New York, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY, USA   February   Arthur S. Grigsby becomes Business Manager of VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Tauber's Marionette Players perform, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Dominion Drama Festival, Canada   May   All-Canadian Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver John Vanderpant exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Jock Macdonald leads Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts' summer camp, Vaucroft, Buccaneer Bay, BC   October   First Annual BC Artists' exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   Franklin D. Roosevelt wins U.S. Presidential Election, USA   December   F.H. Varley exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1933   Bauhaus closed down by Nazis, Germany Canadian Society of Graphic Arts is formed, Canada Josef Albers moves to US, USA U.S. Public Works of Art Project begins, USA Exhibition of Works by Women Artists, Stedelijk Museum, Holland, Amsterdam   January   Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor, Germany   June   Macdonald and Varley leave Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, Vancouver, BC First exhibition at the VAG of the BCSFA, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver B.C. College of Arts announces opening, Vancouver, BC   July   Regina Manifesto issued, Canada B.C. College of Arts incorporated, Vancouver, BC   September   Second Annual B.C. Artists' exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   Canadian Group of Painters first Canadian exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto F.H. Varley lecture, Vancouver, BC 1934   B.C. College of Art Students go on a sketching trip, Garibaldi Park, BC Emily Carr attends lecture by Raja Singham, Victoria, BC   January   Production of Volpone opens, B.C. College of Arts Theatre, Vancouver   May   Dionne Quintuplets are born, Callander, ON   July   Malkin Bowl amphitheatre opens, Vancouver, BC 1935   B.C. College of Art closes, Vancouver, BC Macdonald, Tauber and Planta travel to Nootka, Nootka, Vancouver Island, BC San Francisco Museum of Art opens, San Francisco, CA, USA   March   The Bank of Canada begins operation, Canada   June   "On to Ottawa" trek of the unemployed, Vancouver, BC 1936   American Abstract Artists group formed, USA Artists' Union organized, Toronto, ON D.A. Siquieros founds the Experimental Workshop, USA Jock Macdonald returns to Vancouver, Vancouver, BC Julien Levy publishes Surrealism, USA Vancouver City Hall complete, Vancouver, BC Vancouver Jubilee, Vancouver, BC Lost Lagoon Fountain installed, Stanley Park, Vancouver Civil War breaks out in Spain, Spain   April   F.H. Varley arrives in Ottawa, Ottawa, ON   June   International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, England   October   First West Coast Showing of the Canadian Group of Painters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   Emily Carr exhibitions, Canada CBC is created, Canada The Globe and Mail is born, Toronto, ON   December   Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition opens, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA King Edward VIII abdicates, Britain 1937   CBC's Vancouver Station opens, Vancouver, BC Museum of Non-Objective Painting opens, New York, NY, USA Patullo Bridge opened, Vancouver/ New Westminster St. James Anglican Church is completed, Vancouver, BC Vancouver International Airport attains international status, Vancouver, BC Nylon invented by Dupont, USA Sirois Commission appointed, Canada The new Bauhaus opens, Chicago, IL, USA   May   Exposition of Arts, Crafts and Sciences, Paris, France German airship Hindenburg destroyed, Lakehurst, NJ, USA   June   The Happy Gang is heard on CBC radio, Canada   September   Trans-Canada Airlines makes inaugural flight, Canada   November   First Governor General's Literary Awards, Canada 1938   Jock Macdonald appointed art teacher at Junior High School, Vancouver, BC Lions Gate Bridge opens to traffic, Vancouver, BC A Century of Canadian Art exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, England Exhibition of International Surrealism, Gallerie des beaux-arts, Paris, France   May   Occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   F.H. Varley sails to the Arctic, Canada 1939   Dali and Tanguy immigrate to the USA, USA Hotel Vancouver opens, Vancouver, BC Trans-Canada Airlines inaugurates passenger service, Vancouver/Montreal World's Fair, New York, NY, USA Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, CA, USA   May   The National Film Board is formed, Canada Pan-American Airlines introduces regular trans-Atlantic service, USA/Europe Hitler and Mussolini sign Pact of Steel, Germany/Italy   July   John Vanderpant dies, Vancouver, BC   September   Canada declares war on Germany, Canada   November   Norman Bethune, medical doctor, dies, China 1940   Canadian Congress of Labour formed, Canada E.J. Pratt's narrative poem Brebeuf and His Brethren is published, Canada Lawren and Bess Harris move to Vancouver, Vancouver, BC Cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, Lascaux, France   April   Quebec women are granted the franchise in provincial elections, Quebec   June   International Salon of Photographic Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver St. Roche, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship, begins the west-east voyage through the North West Passage, Canada   August   Gracie Fields performs in Vancouver, Vancouver, BC 1941   Breton, Chagall, Ernst, Lam, Lipchitz and Masson move to the USA, USA Emily Carr publishes Klee Wyck, Canada Penicillin comes into practical use, Britain Unemployment Insurance Act goes into effect, Canada Vogue Theatre completed, Vancouver, BC Canada Census enumerates 11,506,660 residents, Canada Hugh MacLennan's novel 'Barometer Rising' is published, Canada   January   CBC Radio establishes a national news service, Canada   May   Jock Macdonald exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   Max Ernst arrives in New York, New York, NY, USA   December   Paul Goranson official war artist, Canada Japanese-origin citizens fingerprinted, and Japanes fishing fleet is immobilized, Vancouver, BC 1942   Earle Birney and Bruce Hutchison's poems published, Canada Edward J. Hughes becomes an official war artist, Canada Emily Carr's second book, The Book of Small, is published, Canada First of three volumes of The Picture Gallery of Canadian History is issued, Canada   February   Japanese-Canadians are ordered to move inland, British Columbia   March   Artists in Exile exhibition, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, USA.   October   Peggy Guggenheim opens her gallery, Art of this Century, New York, NY, USA Some 22,000 Japanese have now been displaced, British Columbia   November   A.S. Grigsby curator of VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1943   A.J.M. Smith's The Book of Canadian Poetry is published, Canada Orville Fisher becomes an official war artist, Canada   October   First issue of Canadian Art magazine published, Toronto, ON   November   Jackson Pollock exhibition, Art of This Century, New York, NY, USA 1944   Emil Carr's third book, The House of All Sorts is published, Canada Patrick Cowley-Brown becomes an official war artist, Canada   January   First CBC Stage series of dramas, Canada   April   Grace W. Pailthorpe lecture on Surrealism, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   This is our Strength, travelling exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   August   The Family Allowance Act, Canada   September   Art in Living student project, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Second Quebec Conference of Allied leaders, Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City, Quebec   October   Robert Motherwell exhibition, Art of This Century, New York, NY, USA   November   Sidney Janis publishes Abstract & Surrealist Art in America, New York, NY, USA British Columbia at Work exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1945   Hugh MacLennan publishes his novel Two Solitudes, Canada Molly Lamb becomes an official war artist, Canada   February   The first family allowance cheques are mailed, Canada   March   Emily Carr dies, St. Mary's Priory, Victoria, BC   June   UN Charter is signed, San Francisco, CA, USA   November   British Columbia at Work, second exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1946   Emily Carr's fourth book, Growing Pains, is published, Canada   February   Claim of Russian spies in Canada, Canada   May   Fred Rose tried on charges of espionage, Canada   July   Canadian Citizenship Act is proclaimed, Canada   September   J.W.G. Macdonald Automatics, exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1947   Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetty and W.0. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind are published, Canada   February   Oil Discovery, Alberta   August   J.W.G. Macdonald: Watercolours exhibition, Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, USA   November   Charles H. Scott Retrospective exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1948   February   Jerrold Morris appinted curator at the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Collective-Security League creation recommended, Ottawa, ON   May   Tit-Coq premieres in Montreal, Montreal, Quebec   August   Refus global issued, Montreal, Quebec 1949   Vancouver Vocational Institute building is completed, Vancouver   March   Canadian television under the direction of the CBC is announced, Canada Newfoundland enters Confederation, Newfoundland, Canada   April   Royal Commission set up, Canada   November   Design for Living exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1950   June   Cité Libre is founded, Montreal, Quebec   November   Jerry Brusbert exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver 1951   Morley Callaghan's novel The Loved and the Lost is published, Canada Eskimo carvers introduced to printmaking, Baffin Island New wing added to the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   The World of Illusion and Canadian Theatre Design, two exhibits to do with theatre design, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   April   21 Modern British Painters, exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   The Massey Report is tabled in the House of Commons, Ottawa, ON   August   Le théatre du nouveau monde is established, Montreal, Quebec   September   The new VAG is opened with exhibitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time, Toronto, ON 1952   Norman McLaren's short film Neighbours is released, Canada Publications by Donald G. Creighton and E. J. Pratt, Canada   January   Canadian Group of Painters exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Vincent Massey appointed Governor General of Canada, Ottawa, ON   June   The Social Credit Party forms the government, British Columbia James Nicholson dies, Canada   September   First telecast in Canada, Canada   October   Joe Plaskett exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1953   Picture Loan Committee established, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   January   Exhibition of American vanguard artists' paintings, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver National Library of Canada is established, Canada Massey Architecture Awards 1952, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver American Vanguard exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   NGC opens The Design Centre, Ottawa, ON First residents of Alcan Community of Kitimat move into permanent housing, Kitimat, BC   April   Five Contemporary British Painters exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   First Stratford Shakespearian Festival opens, Stratford, ON   September   Sutherland and Moore exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   October   Formation of the Painters Eleven, Toronto, ON Canadian Designs for Living exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Progressive Painters of Western Canada exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver CBC opens TV station in Vancouver, Vancouver David Milne dies, Toronto, ON 1954   February   Painters Eleven first group exhibition, Roberts Gallery, Toronto   March   Group of Seven exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   Satire on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is broadcast on Stage 54, CBC Radio, Canada   November   30 Abstract paintings from Quebec exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Guggenheim Collection exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1955   B.C. Hydro Building opens, Vancouver, BC Notre-Dame du Haut, by Le Corbusier's is comple, Ronchamp, France   February   Alfred Pellan exhibition, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, France Bridges are Beautiful exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   May   Lawren Harris exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 10th Anniversary of Emily Carr's death, Victoria, BC Biennial of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON   November   Jerrold Morris resigns as director of the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Typography exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   New Design Gallery opens, New Design Gallery, Vancouver 1956   Allen Ginsberg speaks for the alienation and despair of a generation in Howl,, San Francisco, CA, USA Vancouver Public Library opens, 750 Burrard Street, Vancouver   April   20th Annual Exhibition of American Abstract Artists with Painters Eleven, Riverside Museum, New York, NY, USA People of the Potlach exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   The Canadian Labour Congress is formed, Canada   June   Canadian Abstract Painting exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON   July   Outdoor Sculpture exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Festival, Vancouver   August   Richard Hamilton's collage Just What Is It Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? exhibited, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England Jackson Pollock dies in a car crash, East Hampton, NY, USA   October   Japanese everyday objects from a Vancouver private collection, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver 1957   Civil Defence Evacuation and Survival Plan for the Greater Vancouver Target Area is published, Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre competition, Vancouver, BC The Encyclopedia Canadiana, in 10 volumes, is launched, Canada Women's Volunteer Committee sets up the Provincial Picture Loan Scheme for Schools with a Canada Council grant, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   January   Martin Luther King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, USA Robert Hume appointed curator of the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Biennial Architecture Exhibition and Massey Awards, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   Treaty of Rome, Europe Canada Council for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is established, Ottawa, ON   April   Takao Tanabe exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Sam and Ayala Zacks Collection exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   John Diefenbaker takes office as the Prime Minister of Canada, Canada   July   Pugwash Conference, Pugwash, NS, Canada   October   Contemporary Paintings from Quebec and Recent Acquisitions in British Art exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Lester B. Pearson awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Canada 1958   General Post Office is completed, 349 West George Street, Vancouver Seagram Building, is completed, New York, NY, USA The Affluent Society by J. K. Galbraith is published, New York, NY, USA Stereophonic gramophone records are generally available, USA   January   Jasper Johns shows for the first time, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York NY, USA For the Bride prepared by the National Industrial Design Council, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   Jack Shadbolt exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   Robert Rauschenberg exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York NY, USA   April   The New American Painting exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA   June   Second Narrows Bridge across Burrard Inlet collapses, Vancouver, BC 100 Years of B.C. Art exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   CBC-TV system is connected, Canada Jean-Paul Lemieux exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   October   Street Furniture, an exhibition of large photographs, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Toni Onley exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Works from the Hammer Brothers Collection, New York exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver 1959   Art Therapy Program is established by the Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is completed, New York, NY, USA Canadian Literature, is launched in Vancouver, Vancouver, BC   January   Contemporary Architecture. National entries for the Pilkington and Massey Awards are shown, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Dr. William Dale is appointed director of the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   Jack Shadbolt is awarded the Guggenheim International Award, Canada   June   St. Lawrence Seaway is officially opened, Canada/USA   July   Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   August   Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture, Municipal Hall, Burnaby, BC 1960   National Theatre School of Canada opens, Montreal, Quebec Guggenheim International Award 1960, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA DC-8 jets are introduced, Canada   January   The Ray Gun spex, a series of happenings, takes place, Judson Gallery, New York, NY, USA   February   American Painting Today, lecture by Clement Greenberg, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   Children's Gallery is inaugurated, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Le Nouveau Realisme à Paris et à New York exhibition, Galerie Rive Droite, France Venice: 30th Biennale, Venice, Italy   July   Canada's Indians granted complete franchise, Canada   August   Canadian Bill of Rights is given royal assent, Ottawa, ON   September   Canadian Opera Company is formed, Toronto, ON   October   New Media: New Forms, an early exhibition of Pop Art in America, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, USA Vantel Broadcasting goes on the air, Vancouver, BC   November   Arte Canadiense exhibition, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico   December   The Birth Control Pill goes onto the market, Canada 1961   The Berlin Wall is erected, Berlin, Germany   February   Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Treasures from Woburn Abbey exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   CCF becomes the NDP, Ottawa, ON 1st Burnaby National Print Show, Burnaby Mountain Centennial Pavilion, Burnaby, BC   October   Canadian Pacific Airlines is inaugurated, Canada American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA The Art of Assemblage exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA 1962   Alvin Balkind becomes curator of the UBC Fine Arts Gallery, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   February   The Second annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Present Directions exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   Marshall McLuhan publishes The Gutenberg Galaxy, Toronto, ON   April   Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA, USA   June   Artforum inaugural issue, San Francisco, CA, USA   September   Trans-Canada Highway, from St. John's, Nfld. to Victoria, B.C., is officially opened, Canada Alouette, the world's first domestic communications satellite, is launched., Canada   October   New Realists exhibition of Pop Art, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, USA   November   My Country 'tis of Thee, an early exhibition of American Pop on the West Coast, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1963   Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique, New York, NY, USA Doris Shadbolt becomes curator at the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Jack Shadbolt executes a mural for the new terminal, International Airport, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada First FLQ bombings, Montreal, Quebec   February   Richard Simmins is appointed director of the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Third annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Reginald Holmes exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   The Portfolio of the Secretary of State is enlarged, Ottawa, ON The Popular Image exhibition, Washington Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA   May   Toward a New Abstraction, the first large exhibition of hard-edge paintings, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA   September   Sao Paolo, 7th Bienal, Sao Paolo, Brazil   October   Lawren Harris Retrospective, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Dallas, Texas, USA   December   Valium is introduced in the USA, USA 1964   January   Art Becomes Reality, an early Vancouver exhibition of Pop Art, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   February   The Beatles arrive in the U.S., USA   April   Guido Molinari exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Post Painterly Abstraction exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA   May   Northern Dancer wins the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Lexinton, KY, USA New Talent exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Documenta III, Kassel, Germany   November   The Nude in Art exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1965   John Porter published The Vertical Mosaic and George P. Grant published Lament for a Nation, Canada Simon Fraser University Centre for Communications and the Arts is founded, Burnaby, BC Sound Gallery (1965-1966) is established, Vancouver, BC   January   Tutankhamun Treasures exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   The fifth annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Bruce Conner and The Dark Mirror, exhibitions, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Maple Leaf flag is flown officially for the first time, Canada The Responsive Eye, international Op Art show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA   April   Gerald Gladstone lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art and the McLuhan Ideas, lecture series, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   World's first commercial satellite, Early Bird, is put into orbit, USA   July   Trips Festival, Pacific National Exhibition Auditorium, Vancouver   October   8th Bienal, Sao Paolo, Brazil   November   London: The New Scene, eighty works by younger British artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   The Mini-Skirt is introduced, England 1966   National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded, USA The N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. is founded, Vancouver, BC Nine Evenings of Theatre and Engineering, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY, USA   February   Sixth annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Bagged Place, installation by Iain Baxter's, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   March   Directions '66 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Los Angeles: The Scene, lecture by John Coplans, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptures, exhibition of Minimal sculptures, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA   August   Rose Latulippe, premieres at Stratford, The Stratford Festival, Stratford, ON, Canada   September   Images for a Canadian Heritage, exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Systematic Painting exhibition of Minimal painting and sculpture, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA Eccentric Abstraction exhibition, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA   November   Painting '66 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Douglas Gallery opens, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver 1967   Canadian Art becomes artscanada, Canada Various Exhibitions throughout the year, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver   January   Michael Snow: Walking Woman Retrospective 1963-66., Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Op Art Walls & Musical Play Screens by Gordon Smith, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   David Mayrs exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver Non-Anthropomorphic Art exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, USA Seventh annual Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver   April   Directions '67 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Harold Cohen: Recent Paintings and Drawings exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Expo '67: Man and His World, The World's Fair, Montreal, Quebec   June   Sculpture '67, organized by Dorothy Cameron, Toronto, ON Burnaby Art Gallery opens at its new location, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC Arts of the Raven exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   Robert Rauschenberg exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver Tony Emery is appointed director of the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canadian Ccentenary, Canada Joy and Celebration exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver French President de Gaulle visits Canada, Montreal, Quebec   August   Iain Baxter exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver   September   9th Bienal, Sao Paolo, Brazil The opera Louis Riel, premieres, Toronto, ON   October   Frank Stella exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver Drawings from the Betty Parsons Collection exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver New Directions in Printmaking exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Vancouver Print International, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 11 Pop Artists: The New Image, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   November   Michael Morris exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver Arte Povera is first defined in Flash Art by critic Germane Celant, Milan, Italy Rolling Stone magazine begins publication, San Francisco, CA, USA The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, premieres, Vancouver 1968   Important buildings in Vancouver begin to be built, Vancouver, BC New airport terminal is opened, with works of art on display, International Airport, Vancouver Vancouver filmmaker David Rimmer's Square Inch Field wins awards, Vancouver, BC Various Exhibitions throughout the year, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver   February   Eighth annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Unification of the armed services into the Canadian Armed Forces, Canada Piles, an exhibition by Iain Baxter, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Random Sample, N=42, an exhibition organized by Toronto critic Arnold Rockman, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Directions '68 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   Los Angeles 6 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Walter Hopps lectures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Martin Luther King is assassinated, Memphis, Tenn., USA Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes prime minister, Canada   May   Glenn Lewis exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver First night of Intermedia Nights. A four-day festival of presentations by Intermedia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Second night of Intermedia Nights. A four-day festival of presentations by Intermedia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Third night of Intermedia Nights. A four-day festival of presentations by Intermedia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Fourth night of Intermedia Nights. A four-day festival of presentations by Intermedia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Performance and two workshops by Deborah Hay at Intermedia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Documenta IV exhibition, Kassel, Germany New British Painting and Sculpture exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   Carrs on Wheels exhibition, Canada   August   Protesting occur during the Democratic Party Convention, Chicago, IL, USA , Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Les Belles-Soeurs, a play in joual by Michel Tremblay, premieres, Montreal, Quebec   September   Spectrum '68, the last of the B.C. Annual Exhibitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   October   David Mayrs exhibition, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver Werner Aellen becomes director of Intermedia, Vancouver, BC Earth Works exhibition, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY, USA Younger Vancouver Sculptors exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   November   As It Happens, CBC Radio's phone-out show, is launched, Canada 1969   David Rimmer's film Migration wins award, Vancouver, BC Various Exhibitions throughout the year, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver   January   New York 13 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   Ninth annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Lucy Lippard lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   When Attitudes Become Form exhibition, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland Concrete Poetry exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   April   First day of Electrical Connection , Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   Billy Al Bengston exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   On the Bias exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Stan Van Der Beek lecture and film showing, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, USA   September   10th Sao Paolo Bienal, Sao Paolo, Brazil Ho Chi Minh dies, Vietnam Directions '69 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   October   New Art of Vancouver exhibition, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach USA Jack Shadbolt exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   Works by Carl André, Ron Cooper, Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback, and Keith Sonnier are exhibited, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver Fluorescent Light Etc exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1970   Phase 2, Satellite, is launched in mid-September, St. Saviour's Anglican Church, Vancouver Radical Software Magazine and Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood, are published, USA The Race Track Gallery / Satellite: East End Extensions at the Pacific National Exhibition Grandstand, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Video: TV as a Creative Medium exhibition, New York, NY, USA An exhibition of performances, Galleria Cavalino, Venice, Italy First issue of Avalanche was published, New York, NY, USA T.V. sets in use throughout the world are estimated at 231 million U.S. census shows smallest number of men in ratio to women in history, USA World Populations   January   U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew visits South Vietnam, South Vietnam Donna Wong and John Juliani wedding theatre piece, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 955,000, exhibition organized by Lucy Lippard, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Richard M. Nixon's first State of the Union Message, USA Oldrich Cernik, is replaced as premier by Lubomir Strougal, Czechoslovakia   February   Four Artists group exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver EEC (European Economic Community) signs a trade agreement with Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia   March   Expo '70, Japan/Canada West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt and East Germany's Premier Willi Stoph hold an historic first meeting, Erfurt, East Germany   April   President Nixon signs a Bill outlawing cigarette commercials on radio and television, USA Count Kari von Spreti, West Germany's ambassador to Guatemala is found dead, Guatemala Age of legal majority is lowered from 21 to 19 years in B.C., British Columbia 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth   May   Four Students are killed and eight others injured at Kent State University anti-war protest, Kent, Ohio, USA 60,000-100,000 people demonstrate against the war in Indochina, in Washington D.C., Washington, DC, USA Intermedia Spring Show, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver New York Stock Exchange reports the largest single-day decline since the assassination of J.F.K., New York, NY, USA   June   Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art exhibition, Turin Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Turin, Italy U.S. Supreme Court ruling on military service exemption, USA Gathie Falk and Glenn Lewis exhibitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Edward Heath becomes prime minister of Britain, Britain Alexander Dubcek, is expelled from Communist party membership, Czechoslovakia   July   Information exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA Police in Montreal defuse a bomb set to explode outside the head office of the Bank of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec   August   U.S. Television-networks are ordered to provide prime viewing time for the presentation of views on the Indochina war, USA   September   Michael Morris exhibition, Ace Gallery, Vancouver Next Cloud. Please! exhibition, Simon Fraser Gallery, Burnaby, BC Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic, dies, Egypt   October   James Cross is kidnapped by the FLQ, Montreal, Quebec Process Hyphen Product exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by the FLQ, Quebec Canada recognized the People's Republic of China as the legal government of China, Canada/China Recorded Activities exhibition, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA War Measures Act is imposed by Prime Minister Trudeau, Quebec War Measures Act is approved, Canada New Directions '70 exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Salvador Allende, a Marxist, is elected president of Chile, Chile The Canadian government announces the sale to China of 98 million bushels of wheat, Canada/China   November   Age of Edenshaw and The Material Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians, Vancouver Centennial Museum, Vancouver Concept - Theorie exhibition, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Bernard Lortie is arrested in Montreal in connection with the kidnapping of Pierre Laporte, Quebec Charles de Gaulle, former president of France, dies of a heart attack, France Claude Breeze exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Gerry Schum's Identifikationen broadcast by German T.V., Germany Oonark / Pangnark an exhibition of Inuit Art from the Northwest Territories, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Roy K. Kiyooka and George Sawchuk exhibitions, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   December   War Measures Act is replaced by the Public Order Bill, Canada James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by Quebec separatists, is released, Quebec/Cuba Giovanni Enrico Bucher is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro, Switzerland/Brazil Paul and Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard are arrested in connection with the Laporte kidnapping, Quebec 1971   The Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver forms the Artists' Gallery, Vancouver, BC A Report on Art and Technology, exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Centennial Year in B.C., British Columbia   January   Peter Daglish, Michael Goldberg, Michael Morris, an exhibition of recent work, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Jack Shadbolt exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver President Obote of Uganda is deposed in a coup d'etat, Uganda   February   Gastown and Chinatown are designated historicsites, Vancouver, BC Women win the right to vote in Switzerland and are denied it in Lichtenstein, Switzerland/East Germany Richard Hamilton and His Contemporaries, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   March   Collage Show exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Prime Minister Trudeau marries Margaret Sinclair, North Vancouver, Canada British Columbia: Photographers, an exhibition of amateur and professional photographs, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC Dennis Vance exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Shaikh Mujibur Rahman declares Bangladesh a republic, Bangladesh N. E. Thing Co. Ltd. exhibition, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC   April   Tiepolo Drawings exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Four Photographic exhibitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Unemployment in Britain reaches highest level since 1940, Britain March against war in Vietnam, USA   May   Michael Morris exhibition, Ace Gallery, Vancouver Emily Carr Centennial Retrospective exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Tom Graff exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Six workshops are presented at the VAG and Energy Exchange, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The New York Times begins publishing excerpts from secret Pentagon papers on the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, USA/Vietnam   July   Poetry Must Be Made by All / Transform The World, a small documentary exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Centennial Pageant at Empire Stadium marks B.C.'s entry into Confederation, Empire Stadium, Vancouver   August   Gastown riot leads to charges of police over-reaction, Gastown, Vancouver Quebec Justice Department drops charges against 32 arrested under the War Measures Act, Quebec   September   Data, (Italian art magazine) inaugural issue under the directorship of TommasoTrini, Milan, Italy International Exposition of Visual Poetry, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver Uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, USA Michael Goldberg, Video Tapes and Discussion, Portland, Oregon, USA The Greenpeace leaves Vancouver for Amchitka to protest against nuclear tests, Vancouver/Amchitka Claude Breeze: Ten Years, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   October   Toni Onley exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Feather Power exhibition, BAG, Burnaby, BC New Cinema 2, a weekend of five programmes, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The Television Environment exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Prospect 71-Projection, an exhibit of photographs, slides, videotapes, and films, Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Germany Image Bank Post Card Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Process and Product, noon-hour programmes, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, West Germany   November   Video Exchange Directory: International, Vancouver, BC Joe Plaskett and his Paris: In Search of Time Past, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Salon of Divine Order of Lodgeexhibition, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver 1972   Watergate affair begins, USA Foreign investments controls in resources and industry are initiated by Canada, Canada   January   Dan Flavin exhibition, Ace Gallery, Vancouver   February   Gallery of Photography opens, Gallery of Photography, Vancouver Mythodromos, one of the last exhibitions presented before the Avelles Gallery closes, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver Peking on Display exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver President Nixon arrives in Peking, US/China   March   Vasarely exhibition, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Al Neil: West Coast Lokas exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Probe: Symposium / Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Due West exhibition, BAG, Burnaby, BC Vasarely in Retrospect exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Vancouver-Halifax Exchange, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   FILE Megazine is published, Toronto, ON   May   Muck-a-Muck Restaurant opens at ACE Gallery, Ace Gallery, Vancouver President Nixon arrives in Moscow, USA/USSR   June   Exploratory Space, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The 36th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Documenta V, Kassel, Germany   July   Free Space weekly exhibitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   August   Video Theatre in Vancouver, Vancouver 50/60 Cycles - International Video, as part of the Exploratory Space series, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver New Democratic Party wins the provincial election, British Columbia   September   Graphic Art of the German Expressionists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Black September Palestinian terrorists kill two Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich, West Germany Toni Onley: 1962-1972, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver   October   Pacific Cinematheque begins its programme with historical films from the silent era, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Form and Structure in Recent Film, a major exhibition of filmmakers, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The Liberal Party loses its majority in Parliament, Canada   November   Richard Nixon is re-elected President of USA, USA Militant American Indians end their weeklong occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., USA An Alternate Press, exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Directions '72: Dean Ellis and Richard Prince exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Mayor Tom (Terrific) Campbell is voted out of office after three terms, Vancouver Lester B. Pearson dies, Canada 1973   Exploratory Space, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Vancouver Art Gallery Annual Report, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver War in Indochina, Indochina , USA   January   Maxwell Bates in Retrospect: 1921-1971, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canadian West Coast Hermetics: The Metaphysical Landscape, exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Vatican meeting of Israeli prime minister Golda Meir and Roman Catholic Pontiff Pope Paul VI, Israel/Italy MATRIX: International Video Meet, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Agreement to end the war in Vietnam is signed, USA/North Vietnam Military draft ends, USA Watergate convictions of members of President Nixon's re-election campaign committee, USA   February   Sound / Sculpture, a survey of work by 11 audio-kinetic sculptors, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Mark Tobey exhibition, Galerie Allen, Vancouver / Foster/Richard White Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA Jacques Rose is acquitted on charge of murdering Pierre Laporte, Quebec Wounded Knee is occupied by members of the American Indian Movement, USA Better Body Works, exhibition, BAG, Burnaby, BC   March   Gordon Smith: Sea Wall Series, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver B.C. Binning: A Retrospective, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Western Front holds its inaugural meeting, The Western Front, Vancouver Artist's Books, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA   April   Art-Rite magazine inaugural issue, New York, NY, USA Pablo Picasso dies, Mougins, France   May   3D in 2D: Drawing for Sculpture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Robert Minden, Mind's Eye Gallery, Vancouver W.A.C. Bennett announces resignation, British Columbia Aecosthetics, a photographic exhibition relating to the ecology and geography of the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Traces, a retrospective exhibition of work produced in Vancouver from 1964-70, BAG, Burnaby, BC   July   Jerry Pethick: Lighthouse: A Multimedia Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   September   Salvador Allende, reportedly commits suicide, Chile Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   October   Fourth Israeli-Arab war takes place, Middle East State visit by Trudeau to Peking, Canada/China OPEC members agree to cut the flow of oil by 5% each month to force the U.S. to change its Middle East policy, Kuwait Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai announce a boycott of oil shipments to the U.S., Kuwait Full-scale war on the Suez front continuesdespite the U.N. cease-fire, Israel/Egypt Robert Bourassa's Liberal government wins 102 seats in the Quebec provincial election, Quebec Libya becomes the seventh Arab country to suspend oil deliveries to the Netherlands, Netherlands/Libya Dieter Rot: Graphics and Books, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   Arab-Israeli cease-fire agreement signed, Middle East Construction on the James Bay hydroelectric project halted, Quebec Emergency rationing of oil and electric power are announced for Japan's industry, Japan OPEC announces that petroleum supplies would not be cut back any further to most European countries Bill Bennett elected leader of the B.C. Social Credit Party, British Columbia Oil Minister Ahmad Zaki al-Yamani threatens to cut oil production by 80%, Saudi Arabia   December   West Coast Hermetics, Mido Gallery, Vancouver 1974   The Helen Pitt Gallery begins operations, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver V.I.E.W. (Vancouver Image Exploration Workshop) establishes a non-profit society, Vancouver, BC 16 West Coast Artists, Galerie Allen, Vancouver Video / TV, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Poetry readings introduced, The Western Front, Vancouver Special Events, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Vancouver Art Gallery Annual Report, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   January   477-74-7 exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver W.0.R.K.S., Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC B.C. Artists and their Art, lecture series, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC   February   Cinematheque begins its program of Expanded Cinema, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Semiotext(e) inaugural issue, New York, NY, USA Incontri video '74, international exhibition of videotapes, Incontri Internazionale d'Arte, Rome, Italy Emily Carr's Contemporaries, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC The Graphic Art of Sylvia Tait, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC Ian Wallace: The Summer Script, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver   March   Robert Young exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Les Levine: Language ÷ Emotion + Syntax = Message exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Dana Atchley - Fragments 1963/1973: Images, Words and Space Debris exhibition, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC   April   Towers Beached: Washed Up exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Iain Baxter exhibition of Vacu-form objects and drawings from N.E. Thing Co., Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Alternate Space artist-juried exhibitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Surfacing on the Subliminal exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver   May   The Diane Stimpson Gallery opens, Diane Stimpson Gallery, Vancouver   June   General Idea. An exhibition of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, The Western Front, Vancouver Toward Costume, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   Kunst Bleibt Kunst: Project '74, a major exhibition oriented towards new media, video, film and performance, Cologne Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany   September   Narrative Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium   October   Video BAG, BAG, Burnaby, BC Artists' Stamps and Stamp Images, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC   November   Transformer: Aspekte der Travestie, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland Personal Film: Content and Context, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Robert Michener exhibition, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Bill Reid Retrospective, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Sol Lewitt: 1958-1974, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Michael Snow film, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Artists' Films from New York and Germany 1971-74, Pacific Cinematheque and The Western Front, Vancouver 1975   Gallery of Photography destroyed by fire, Gallery of Photography, Vancouver Luke Rombout is appointed director of the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Alternate Space, Exploratory Space, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver First issue of The Fox is published by Art & Language, New York, NY, USA   January   Otto Dix: Drawings, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver My Five Years in a Nutshell, The Western Front, Vancouver   February   A Space: a thousand words, Royal College of Art Gallery, London Sherry Grauer: Formed Canvas, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Matthew Speier, multi-channel dance-video event, Video Inn, Vancouver   March   Yvonne Rainer film presentation, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Pacific Rim Consciousness exhibition, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC Arte Video Multivision exhibition, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy Spots Before Your Eyes exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver The beaver is adopted as our official symbol, Cologne Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany   April   The Man in the Brown Paper Bag. Portraits of Robin Page, Galerie Allen, Vancouver Judy Williams: The Search for the True Cedar, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Alan Wood exhibition, Galerie Allen, Vancouver Fundamental Painting exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Holland, Amsterdam   May   Pumps Centre of the Arts is established as an artist-run centre, Vancouver, BC Images: Stone, B.C., Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Doris Shadbolt takes a sabbatical leave from the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Robert Rauschenberg exhibition, Ace Gallery, Vancouver European Transfer, exhibition, Video Inn, Vancouver The Sights and Textures of Canada's West Coast exhibition, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Tendances actuelles de la nouvelle peinture americaine exhibition, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France   July   Vancouver International Stone Sculpture Symposium, Van Dusen Botanical Gardens, Vancouver International Women's Year World Conference ends in Mexico City, Mexico Klee Wyck: A Ballet for Emily, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   September   Alvin Balkind joins the Vancouver Art Gallery as chief curator, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver American Masters of the 60s, Galerie Allen, Vancouver Western Front at A Space, Vancouver/Toronto Simone Forti. Dance and video works, The Western Front, Vancouver Grande Biennale de Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Jeff Wall lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Jack Shadbolt exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver   October   Images for a Canadian Heritage, Vancouver, BC Narrative Art 2 exhibition, Cannaviello, Rome, Italy The Very Eye of Light: A Primer in Experimental Film, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 25th anniversary celebration to honour Doris Shadbolt's outstanding contribution and commitment to the VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Judith Lodge: Personal Historical Land Portraits exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Selbstportraitals Selbstdarstellung, Galerie Im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria Paintings on Paper, works by four Vancouver artists, Contemporary Royale, Vancouver   November   John Heartfield exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver International Women's Year exhibition, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC Hey-Diddle-Diddle exhibition, BAG, Burnaby, BC Roy K. Kiyooka: 25 years exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1976   January   Bill Jones: A Survey exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The Pender Street Gallery opens as an alternative gallery space, The Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver   February   Bau-Xi Gallery opens its Toronto premises, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto Colin Campbell and Willoughby Sharp exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Quebec '75: Arts / Video / Cinema exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Gathie Falk: 39 drawings exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver   March   Rodney Graham and Robert Kleyn exhibition, The Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver Art and Cinema, films by Italian artists from 1965 to 1976, Centre International Brera, Milan, Italy Sechelt Summer Slides 1972-74, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver A week-end with Willoughby Sharp and his friends, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Artcore formed, Vancouver, BC An exchange: Video des femmes at Video Inn and Women's Video at the Powerhouse, Video Inn, Vancouver / Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, PQ The Friends of Gertrude Stein, graphic works by artists known or collected by Stein, Galerie Royale, Vancouver Six Sculptors: New Works, BAG, Burnaby, BC Gordon Smith: 30 Years in Retrospect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Kazumi Tanaka exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver   May   Habitat street banners are widely displayed in the city, Vancouver, BC Robert Kleyn exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 3 Photographers in Exhibition, Galerie Royale, Vancouver Pumps' first show: blown-up polaroids and assemblages by Judi Kemeny, Pumps, Vancouver Art on the Buses, Vancouver, BC The Legacy. The Museum of Anthropology is officially opened by Governor-General Jules Leger, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver 17 Canadian Artists: A Protean View, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Habitat '76, the Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, BC Habitat: Toward Shelter, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   June   Ian Wallace exhibition, The Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver Night Shift at the Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Greetings from the Urban Wilderness, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Jack Shadbolt exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver First exhibition at The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS1, New York, NY, USA   July   Presentation House in North Vancouver begins its exhibition program, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver The 37th Biennale presents L'ambiente / arte, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy   August   Glenn Allison is appointed curator, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver The first issue of Centerfold is published, Calgary, AB   September   Galerie Allen moves from Gastown to South Granville, Galerie Allen, Vancouver SoHo, Downtown Manhattan exhibition, Berlin, Germany Bill Jones and Ardele Lister: A Different Kind of Romance, The Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Aspects of Realism, Centennial Museum, Vancouver   October   Contemporary Arts Council of Vancouver, a non-profit society, is formed, Vancouver, BC Michelangelo Retrospective, Pumps, Vancouver Current Pursuits, explorations and expressions by nine contemporary B.C. artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Whole Message - Holos: whole / Gram: message / Holography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Byron Black, an Infinity retrospective, The Western Front, Vancouver Polychromed constructions by Georgina Chappell, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC Recent Works, Pumps, Vancouver Women's Inter-Art CoOp Exhibition, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver   November   The Colour Bar and the Chromosexual, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Robin Mayor exhibition, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Work by seven Canadian sculptors, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Chris Reed exhibition, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Edward Paolozzi exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver B.C. Indian Artists at Work, Vancouver Centennial Museum, Vancouver Jingle Bell Jungle, a Christmas exhibition, BAG, Burnaby, BC Andy Warhol: American Indian Series, Ace Gallery, Vancouver Canadian dollar drops to U.S. 97.09, Canada   December   City of Vancouver purchases artists work, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Nova Gallery opens, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Borduas and America / et l'Amerique, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Women Artists 1550-1950, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1977   Great Photographers lecture series, V.I.E.W., Vancouver Independent Film Program, Pumps, Vancouver Performance Program, The Western Front, Vancouver   January   The first issue of the feminist art journal Heresies is published, New York, NY, USA Contemporary American Art in Vancouver Collections, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   Ranjan Sen exhibition, Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver Beginnings: Roy Vickers's Works, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver Ouglielmo Achille Cavellini exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver Transition: An Examination of Extreme Changes in Style and Accompanying Attitudes, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Alan Wood exhibition, Equinox Gallery and Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver   March   Off Media: Nuove tecniche artistiche video, disco libro exhibition, Expo Arte, Bari, Italy Diego Cortez presents an evening of films, The Western Front, Vancouver General Idea exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver Four Places, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver David Hockney and Ed Ruscha exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Gallery Move opens, Gallery Move, Vancouver Al Razutis: Visual Alchemy, BAG, Burnaby, BC Greg Curnoe public talk, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Cioni Carpi, an audio-visual installation, The Western Front, Vancouver   April   Watching Shirine by the Sea, exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver David Mayrs exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Richard Prince exhibition, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver   May   Kim Tomczak, Richard Hambleton exhibition, Pumps, Vancouver Ceramics '77 exhibition, Centennial Museum, Vancouver Murder Research 1976-1977 by Kenneth Fletcher and Paul Wong, The Western Front, Vancouver Dick Higgins, artist-in-residence, The Western Front, Vancouver Howard Hughes Inc exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver   June   A Tribute to Al Razutis, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Paris-New York exhibition, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Jim Bridge: The Cardboard Killers exhibition, Pumps, Vancouver Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany   July   Eighth annual Prison Arts '77, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver   August   Exhibition of works donated to the City of Vancouver Public Art Collection, The Artists Gallery, Vancouver   September   Tom Robertson exhibition, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver Just Another Show group exhibition, Pumps, Vancouver From This Point of View juried exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Xeme Biennale de Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Some Contemporary Art from the East Coast of Australia, The Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver   October   Giorgio Morandi exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Strata group exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Marian Penner Bancroft and Scott MacEachern exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Canadian dollar drops, Canada   November   Dada Data exhibition, Gallery Move, Vancouver General Idea exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Nam June Paik Lecture and video-screening, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Don Jarvis exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver True Confections exhibition, BAG, Burnaby, BC Judith Lodge exhibition, Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver   December   The Bent-Box Gallery opens, Bent-Box Gallery, West 15th Ave, Vancouver American / Narrative Art: 1967-1977 group exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA 1978   Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Independent Film Program, Pumps, Vancouver Video Program. Readings Program, The Western Front, Vancouver   January   Recent Acquisitions exhibition, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Eric Cameron / Noel Harding: Two Audio-visual Constructs exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver videospace, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Maria Fitzgerald exhibition, Pumps, Vancouver Richard Hambleton exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver Vancouver School of Art becomes the Emily Carr College of Art (ECCA), Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver Punk Films (New Wave), Pumps, Vancouver Glenn Toppings Remembered, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Un anno di arte italianaan exhibition of Italian artists, Gallery Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany   February   General Idea exhibition, Gallery Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy Steve Paxton and Nancy Smith dance performance, The Western Front, Vancouver Karen Chapnik, Nora Blanck exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC   March   Barrie Jones exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Joe David: West Coast Artist, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver Hermann Nitsch exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver Jack Shadbolt: Seven Years, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Montreal Tapes: Video as a Community or Political Tool , Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Cabaret Voltaire, The Western Front, Vancouver The Ace Gallery opens its new premises on West Georgia St., Ace Gallery, Vancouver The Zagcouver Show, Video Inn, Vancouver The New Artsspace conference of alternative visual arts organizations, Santa Monica, CA, USA Vera Frenkel exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Duchamp: Ready-mades, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   Joe David, Ron Hamilton exhibition, Bent-Box Gallery, West 15th Ave, Vancouver Share Corsaut exhibition, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver Sun Day is observed across the U.S.A., USA Robin Mayor exhibition, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Lorne Beug exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver The Last Videotapes of Marcel Duchamp and Merce and Marcel, are shown, Videospace, Vancouver Visa-Vis, a shadow play / opera, The Western Front, Vancouver   June   Sybil Andrews exhibition, De Vooght Gallery, Vancouver Metafisica del quotidiano, thematic exhibitions, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy The Children of the Raven Gallery opens on Homer Street, Children of the Raven Gallery, Vancouver White Paper on cultural development, Quebec, Canada Michael de Courcy exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver   July   Robbie Sutherland, Brian Whittingham, Peter Schuyff, and Maria Fitzgerald, group exhibition, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Native Art exhibition, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver Richard Hamilton exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   August   Colour Cast exhibition, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver   September   Fifth Network Conference, Toronto, ON Robert Rauschenberg exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Toni Onley exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Northwest Coast Indian Artists Guild exhibition, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver Language is War Documentation of past performances by Fabio Mauri, The Western Front, Vancouver   October   Music With Roots in the Aether, a series of 14 videotapes, The Western Front, Vancouver Gathie Falk exhibition, Artcore, Vancouver Art, Artists and the Media, exhibition and conference, Graz, Austria Jeff Wall exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver   November   Sally Michener exhibition, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver 13 Cameras, an exhibition of photographs, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver New Works on Paper exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver The Hummer Sisters, a Video Cabaret, Pumps, Vancouver   December   N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Glenn Lewis: Bewilderness - The Origins of Paradise, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Paul Wong: in ten sity, performance, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1979   January   Artists-in-Residence program, The Western Front, Vancouver videospace, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Vanguard changes from a newspaper tabloid to a magazine format, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Copier / Recopier, a photographic anthology, The Western Front, Vancouver Frank Stella exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   March   Liz Magor exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Leslie Poole exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Andy Warhol exhibition, Ace Gallery, Vancouver The Marion Scott Gallery presents the work of master Inuit sculptors, Marion Scott Gallery Feminist Points of View: Yvonne Rainer and Babette Mangolte, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver European Dialogue: The Third Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia Bill Featherston exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Sally Michener exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Pacific Rim / Slow Scan, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   Video '79, Rome, Italy Ian Wallace exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Chick Rice exhibition, Artists' Gallery, Vancouver Jerry Pethick exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The Bau-Xi Gallery moves to new premises at 3045 Granville Street and opens with a group exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, 3045 Granville Street, Vancouver Paris Moscow 1900-1930 exhibition, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France   June   Robert Davidson and Joe David exhibition, Bent-Box Gallery, West 15th Ave, Vancouver Emily Carr: The Mature Years exhibition, Canada House Gallery, London, England Evelyn Roth International Festival, BAG, Burnaby, BC Richard Turner exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   July   Theodore Saskatche Wan exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Kyoto / Canada Video Exchange Show, Video Inn, Vancouver Creative Flight exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC   September   Contemporary Arts Society lecture series, Vancouver, BC West Coast Ceramics exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Holland, Amsterdam Affinities: Ten Painters of This Region exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Ian Wallace exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Perform. A month-long video festival, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Living Art Performance Festival, Vancouver, BC   October   Emily Carr exhibition, Vancouver, BC Joseph Beuys exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA The Keenlyside Gallery opens on Granville Street, The Keenlyside Gallery, Vancouver Marian Penner Bancroft exhibition, Nova Gallery, Vancouver Robert Davidson exhibition, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver   November   Arts Magazine article by Donald B. Kuspit, USA   December   Bill Featherston and Robert Young exhibition, Artcore, Vancouver Byron Black and Tony Reif film presentation, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Robert Flaherty exhibition of 139 photographs, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Confrontations exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Inuit / TV, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Hank Bull performance, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver 1980   Craig Owens, The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism (Part 2), in October Serge Guilbaut, 'The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America,' in October, USA   January   Correspondence from The Western Front, A Space, Toronto To Found a National Gallery: the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 1880-1913, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON   February   John Bentley Mays becomes the visual art critic for the The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON   March   Michael Snow exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   Nuova Immagine exhibition, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy Jean Paul Sartre dies, France Architectural References exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   May   ECCA moves to Granville Island, Vancouver, BC Camere incantati - Espansione dell'immagine exhibition, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Locations catalogue exhibition, Mercer Union, Toronto Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 retrospective exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA   July   Pluralities: Art in Canada One Hundred Years Later centennial exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON   September   Irene Whittome retrospective exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal videospace: TV / Art Series, a program of lectures, video screenings and presentations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver videospace: TV / Art Series, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   October   Lynn Hughes exhibition, Mercer Union, Toronto Oraf '80 an exhibition of photographs, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver David Ross lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Liz Magor exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   November   Donald Kuspit lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   December   Book by Achille Bonito Oliva, The Italian Trans-avantgarde, Milan, Italy Jean-Paul Trefois presents selected Videographie programmes and lectures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver David Rimmer retrospective exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1981   Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression, article in October,, USA   March   49th Parallel opens with a show of works by Michael Snow, New York, NY, USA FAVAC (Film and Video Against Censorship) is formed, Toronto, ON Conference on Modernism and Modernity: A Question of Culture or Culture Called into Question, UBC, Vancouver Roadshow 80, The Western Front, Vancouver   May   ECCA becomes ECCAD, Vancouver, BC Westkunst: Contemporary Art Since 1939, Cologne, Germany   June   40th Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy   August   Catherine MacLean exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, New York, NY, USA   September   Margaret Dragu performance, The Western Front, Vancouver   October   Equal Time - Equal Space, A Space, Toronto   November   Rooms in the Secret Palace of 0, by Oraf, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver Barry Cogswell and Brittany Landscape installation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Language and Representation, works by eight Toronto artists, A Space, Toronto 1982   Griselda Pollock article, Vision Voice and Power: Feminist Art History and Marxism, in Block, USA   January   Geoffrey Smedley exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   February   Kou Nakajima installation and workshops, The Western Front, Vancouver   March   Vicky Marshall exhibition, Unit/Pitt, Vancouver Mannerism: A Theory of Culture exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   April   The Braineaters, paintings, performance, sculpture, and film, Unit/Pitt, Vancouver Fred FitzPatrick exhibition, The Western Front, Vancouver David Keane's installation, The Western Front, Vancouver   May   Mise en scène., major installation pieces by six B.C. artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Tom Graff performance, The Western Front, Vancouver   July   Tom Graff performance, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   August   Dennis Oppenheim installation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver   September   Benjamin H. D. Buchloh article, Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation and Montage in Contemporary Art, in Artforum Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany Monumenta, overview of current figurative art in Toronto, A Space, Gallery 76, YYZ and ChromaZone, Toronto   November   Applebaum-Hebert report on federal cultural policy is released, Ottawa, ON   December   Zeitgeist exhibition, Internationale Kunstausstelung, Berlin, Germany Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party exhibited, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB Okanada exhibition, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany 1983   January   Henri Robideau exhibition, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver   February   Kunstler Aus Kanada exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany   March   Ian Wallace, article, 'Canada: Anyone, Anywhere, Anything,' in Flash Art, USA From the Heart. Canadian Folk Art. A tribute to folk art from the early 19th century to the present, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

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