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‘An Indigenous Present’ Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today

Colossal

All images © DelMonico Books, shared with permission “Historically, books about contemporary Native and Indigenous art have often been composed of academic essays illustrated with artworks by Indigenous makers,” Jeffrey Gibson ( previously ) says in the introduction to An Indigenous Present.

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A New Book Flies Through the Vast World of Birds from Art and Design to History and Ornithology

Colossal

Elizabeth Butterworth, Lear’s Macaw, 2005. Picture credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: Gift of Mrs. Walter B. Oiva Toikka, Birds by Toikka, 1972–present. Mixed media, Temporary installation at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK. Chromolithograph, 7.3 × 8.3 Picture credit: © Elizabeth Butterworth.

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Café Royal Books: 15 years of documenting the UK

Creative Review

Started in 2005 by Craig Atkinson, it began as an antidote to the work he’d been creating himself as an artist. I wanted an antidote to all of that, and to the gallery system, which seemed a closed and fairly elite network. But I never liked to exhibit the same work more than a couple of times,” says Atkinson.

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11 Graphic Design Tips to Create Images Like a Pro On Instagram

Graphic Design Junction

It is always beneficial to reflect back on the past in order to gain a better understanding of the present. YouTube was launched in 2005 and experienced meteoric popularity, particularly among creative types, almost immediately after its inception.

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A “One-Man Print Archive of Culture, Community, and Social Change” — Café Royal Share Five Favorite Books

Eye on Design

It started in 2005. I was just doing that at home, on scraps of paper, but then eventually, after maybe a year, I sort of started to get that craving to exhibit the drawings again, but I knew I didn’t want to use the gallery. The vision for Café Royal Books was the idea of disseminating art, without a gallery.

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The Many Layers of Cornelia Oberlander’s Landscapes

Azure Magazine

Honoured with monographs, biography, every kind of award, and now an exhibition of her work organized by the West Vancouver Museum and the Art Gallery of Alberta. In 1953, she attended Richard Neutra’s lecture at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which electrified her along with just about everybody else in the audience.

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5 Projects that Capture the Brilliance of Vancouver Architect Peter Cardew

Azure Magazine

Pavilion at Expo 86, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Reigning Champ stores in Vancouver, Los Angeles and Toronto. Fulford Residence (2005). Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (1995). His obituary in the Globe and Mail captures his passion: “Peter imagined, re-imagined, lobbied, mentored and taught.