From food-can pyramids to candid self-portraits, the ever-growing art event in Mount Pleasant, Gastown, and Commercial Drive is a hive of activity.

Going to a major new exhibition south of the border gives a timely reminder of what made Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet great.

Fringe circuit favourites and political shows Doppelganger and Crude Love encourage us to pause and examine the suffering and devastation that our dependence on oil causes.

With a lineup of 68 groups giving more than 500 performances, from the Dada-esque to the therapeutic, the 24th annual Vancouver International Fringe Festival is as likely to move audiences to tears as it is to make them bust a gut laughing.

The Museum of Anthropology’s groundbreaking new Internet research hub will link its collection of Pacific Northwest objects with other Pacific Northwest collections in museums around the world.

On display at the Jeffrey Boone Gallery, the White Rock–based painter’s recent impressionistic portraits depict local skaters, but leave the actual skateboards out of the picture.

The Treasure Hill Tea + Photo Project documents Wei-Li Yeh's two-month artist residency in a disputed, semi-derelict neighbourhood and the process of establishing an arts centre in the community.

As part of this weekend's Powell Street Festival, curator Aya Takada has brought in works from the world’s most exciting youth culture, such as manga-influenced illustrations of superbabies and musclebound monsters by Toru Morooka.

Local artist Mary Taylor has spent thousands of hours researching more than 250 victims of heinous, incomprehensible acts of violence for a searing installation at the Pride in Art Festival.

Vancouver isn’t the only hot spot this summer. With all of the activity taking place across the region, from North Vancouver’s Party-at-the-Pier to White Rock’s Spirit of the Sea Festival, you're spoilt for choice.

At the 26th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, which took place on Monday night at the Commodore Ballroom, the prizes in the large-theatre category were distributed democratically or oddly, depending on your point of view.

There's something for every culture vulture this summer. Take your pick from aerial performers at Dancing on the Edge to operatic virtuosos at Festival Vancouver, or Polynesian hula dancers at All Over the Map.

A circle of chairs and a flip chart: are these the key to addressing poverty in the developing world? Absolutely, according to Bridges That Unite, a travelling exhibition at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre until Sunday (June 22), which uses photographs, text, video, and interactive Web-based tools to explore Canada’s role in international development.

Since 1915, nobody has seen the original cut of Edward Curtis’s feature film In the Land of the Head Hunters. Shot on the Pacific Northwest coast in the early 20th century by the famous “Indian” photographer, it starred Kwakwaka’wakw actors in a fictional take on precontact life.

The characters in Anita Rochon's play, part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, are paralyzed by apathy, which she uses to simultaneously mock the creative impulse and celebrate its redemptive power.