The legendary comics creator and cocurator of the forthcoming KRAZY! multimedia show, says we live in a culture that’s forgetting how to work hard for meaning.

Are you wondering about where to place KRAZY!, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s big summer show? Curious about how to situate an exhibition of popular culture within the context of a “high art” institution? For starters, chuck out notions of high and low and kill the terms popular culture and mass media. Think, instead, of visual culture, the swirling mass of images that bombards us daily.

There are a number of reasons to be excited about the Vancouver Art Gallery’s upcoming KRAZY! exhibit. The show opens next Saturday (May 17) and features more than 600 pieces of work, drawn from comics, anime, cartoons, and video games.

Liz Magor: MOUTH: FULL

Drum & Light Festival

A Full Circle First Nations Performance production. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre and the Ironworks on Saturday, February 16. No remaining performances

New Forms Festival

A Powell Street Festival and Blim Arts Society coproduction. At the Vancouver Japanese Language School on Thursday (June 21). No remaining performances

At the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday, June 22

A Pictures for the Sky presentation. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre on Saturday, June 2. No remaining performances

A PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, CABINET Interdisciplinary Collaborations, the Turning Point Ensemble, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre copresentation. At the Roundhouse on Friday, January 19

SuicideGirls

The most disturbing sights on view during this year's gallery crawl, however, came when I followed a hand-drawn sign promising “More SWARM” down Blood Alley.

With special guest Michael McClure. An International Arts Initiatives presentation, in association with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday, January 20

Chun Yi A China Heaven Creation International Performing Arts Co. and Great World Artists International production. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Sunday, January 8. No remaining performances