Juno-award winning musician Murray McLauchlan has released a song paying tribute to Group of Seven artist Tom Thomson. The song, called A Thomson Day, is part of his 21st studio album Hourglass, and features McLauchlan's favourite Thomson painting, The West Wind.
Ramona Jingru Wang has won Capture Photography Festival's annual writing prize. This is only the second year the Vancouver festival has offered a prize for arts writing about lens-based work. Wang is a Chinese emerging writer and artist based in New York. Her work will be published in Capture's catalogue in April.
Yoko Ono is asking women to send testimonies of harm, along with pictures of their eyes, to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Their submissions will be displayed as part of Ono's installation, Arising, for her exhibition, Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono, which opens Oct. 9. In the call, Ono writes: “Women of all ages, from all countries of the world: you are invited to send a testament of harm done to you for being a woman.” Submissions can be in any language, but she asks women not to sign their full names. Send to: Arising, ℅ the Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St., Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 2H7 or by email to: yoko@vanartgallery.bc.ca.
Saskatchewan artist Zachari Logan's work is on display until Sept. 18 at the Canada Gallery in the Canadian High Commission in London. Logan's exhibition, Wild Flower, focuses on the links between humans and the natural world, with detailed pencil drawings of flowers, foliage and a wild man.
Five works from Juliana Sohn's photographic series Boys With Long Hair is displayed on Vancouver billboards until Aug. 30, as part of the Capture Photography Festival. The series features boys who have grown out their hair, an act that Sohn calls “an indication of the individual’s strong character and their solid grasp of self-identity,” when faced with a world often confused about their gender. The works can be found along the Arbutus Greenway between Fir Street and Burrard Street.