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Art Prices & Hard Times

What establishes the value of artwork, especially the ones that demand incredibly high prices, and how many artists are making “the big bucks?” These questions intrigue me, so I found press reports about some recent events in the art market of serious interest – one about Andy Warhol and the other about Andreas Gursky....Read more

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Introducing Opus Plus

It’s been nearly forty years since Opus Art Supplies began as a small picture frame manufacturer. In that time, we’ve looked for different ways to understand the creative individual who shops at our stores. That knowledge has allowed us to evolve our business to become one of the best providers of art supplies, digital printing, and framing in North America....Read more

Not-so Neutral Grey

Fine art digital print framed in a custom DIY BOD Molding and Chai mat

Frame your images between black and white. Get the benefits of both simplicity and style with grey, in this latest addition to the BOD line of frame moldings found exclusively at Opus....Read more

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SFU Philosophers' Cafe

The Vancouver Art scene. When most of us think about art, we think of classical forms like dance painting, sculpture and theatre. But where do other art forms like graffiti,wall posts, video and digital design fit in? Do they deserve to be called art too?

Everyone is welcome to join this free discussion held at the Burnaby Public Library, McGill branch, 4595 Albert St at 7 pm. Registration and experience not necessary. Moderated by Paul Matthew St. Pierre, a painter and installation artist as well as a professor of English at SFU, where he specializes in postcolonial literature and film studies.

Visit www.philosopherscafe.net or call 778-782-5215 for further details.

SFU Philosophers' Cafe

What constitutes a broader definition of public art?
Graffiti? Flash mobs? Parkour? Street art? Who gets to decide? What are the challenges of traditional forms of art for urban spaces?

Everyone is welcome to join this free discussion held at SFU's Vancouver Campus @ 515 W. Hastings St. Room 2105 at 7pm. Registration and experience not necessary. Moderated by Dorothy Barenscott, an art historian writer and blogger who teaches in SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts and Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Department of Fine Arts. Visit www.philosopherscafe.net for complete listings.