March 21, 2019Meet Our Docents!By rennie museumFiorela Argueta is currently finishing her BA Honours in Art History at the University of British Columbia. Her academic research interests reside in curatorial practices in contemporary galleries, archival theory, and Italian neorealism films. She is excited to be the docent for the Spring 2019: Collected Works exhibition at the rennie museum and to lead thematic discussions on collecting and photography…. Read more.
March 21, 2019April: rennie LoansBy rennie museumA robust lending program ensures rennie collection is shared across the globe with numerous institutions, including Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Jumex, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian and Tate, to name a few. For the month of April you’ll find rennie collection artworks in Chicago and Santa Barbara, California. Lara… Read more.
March 9, 2019Education Program at rennie museum!By rennie museumLocated in Vancouver’s Chinatown, rennie museum’s exhibition program offers guided tours of high-calibre international art at no cost to the public. We are also proud to operate a free Education Program (K-12) that provides tours and workshops to school groups of all ages. These activities equip students with an expanded artistic vocabulary, allow them to develop their close reading skills, and include hands-on… Read more.
February 7, 2019Press Release | Spring 2019: Collected WorksBy rennie museumrennie museum is pleased to present Spring 2019: Collected Works, a group exhibition encompassing the mediums of photography, painting and film. A portraiture of the collecting spirit, the works exhibited invite exploration of what collected objects, and both the considered and unintentional ways they are displayed, inform us. Featuring the works of four artists—Andrew Grassie, William E. Jones, Louise Lawler… Read more.
December 14, 2018The Power of Six LettersBy rennie museumWritten by Ceilidh Munroe A few years ago, my brother called me and told me that a group of white men at a party had maliciously called him a nigger. He was distraught and I felt physically ill. Why is it that a single word can have such an effect? Throughout history, ‘white’ has been positioned as beautiful, good,… Read more.
November 21, 2018Beauty Through the Lens of Kerry James MarshallBy rennie museumWritten by Ceilidh Munroe I have curly hair. I currently consider this a blessing; I wear it out with pride and never straighten it, but I can tell you right away that this mindset was a long time coming. The child of a Jamaican father and Canadian mother, I spent my adolescent years in Calgary, Alberta, poring over Seventeen Magazine… Read more.
November 16, 2018Kerry James Marshall and the African DiasporaBy rennie museumWritten by Troy Johnson Kerry James Marshall has tasked himself with reconciling an almost exclusively white history of Western art with unequivocal and unapologetic blackness. His works consistently address the push and pull African American artists face within the diaspora. I have chosen two pieces from Rennie Museum’s Kerry James Marshall: Collected Works exhibition that articulate this experience expertly: one,… Read more.
September 28, 2018rennie museum Book Club Returns!By rennie museumEvery Tuesday, October 9 – November 66:00- 7:15 PMRegister HERE rennie museum is excited to announce the second installment of the rennie museum Book Club! In conjunction with our Kerry James Marshall: Collected Works exhibition, we invite literature and art enthusiasts to immerse themselves in the science-fiction classic Kindred by African-American writer Octavia Butler. Every Tuesday, from October 9 to… Read more.
August 22, 2018Exhibition walkthrough of ‘Kerry James Marshall: Collected Works’By rennie museumExhibition walkthrough of ‘Kerry James Marshall: Collected Works’ at rennie museum, June 2 – November 3, 2017. Exhibition Walkthrough: Kerry James Marshall from Rennie Collection on Vimeo. VIDEO & EDIT: Milena Salazar Read more.
August 16, 2018Kerry James Marshall at rennie museumBy rennie museumKerry James Marshall on Black identity, history and the process of making work. Interviewed on the occasion of ‘Kerry James Marshall: Collected Works’ exhibited at rennie museum, June 2 – November 3, 2018. Kerry James Marhsall at rennie museum from rennie collection on Vimeo. VIDEO & EDIT: Milena Salazar Read more.