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Growth of an artist in Never Look Back, more on How to Train Your Dragon and life with a wrestling family

Also going international: in Spain by an Iranian and in Singapore with a Japanese foodie

Women on an elaborate heist, farm work by women while the men are off to war and a modern gothic horror

Also Jodie Foster patching up criminals and two documentaries about major artists

Emily Blunt in a scary Quiet Place; Jason Clarke as hapless Ted Kennedy and soldiers turning bitter in World War I

Also bizarre encounters with an eccentric artist and reviving a girl’s volleyball team after tragedy
Martin Messier of MUTEK (photo by artist)

Art and electronics collide as city hosts mind-blowing global symposium (VIDEO)

SFU Woodwards transforms into a techy art space where non-conformity and new forms rule.

Parviz Tanavoli on his work and the Safar/Voyage exhibit of Middle Eastern Artists

"These are the true voices of the Middle Eastern people.”

Join Emily Carr for Design Every Day from June 11 – June 24

Presented by Emily Carr Continuing Studies, Design Every Day is a call for typographers, designers, architects, urbanists and artists to reimage everyday encounters with letterforms, imagery,...

Hill's Native Art brings Aboriginal culture to international customers

Since the 1970s, the small store-turned-gallery has helped showcase BC's unique history and culture with visitors from around the world.

Mirror Mirror, Wrath of the Titans and eight other new films reviewed

Julia Roberts has fun playing it evil in the Snow White send-up, Mirror Mirror

PuSh Festival's opening gala party at the Waldorf: photos

Musicians, dancers, artists and culture-lovers gathered at the Waldorf to kick off the PuSh Festival.

Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s most entertaining film in years. Also X-Men, Beijing Taxi, Orgasm Inc. and fun with exploitation pictures

Owen Wilson acts out Woody Allen’s words and artistic fantasies in Midnight in Paris. (read more)