Douglas Coupland's now-closed VAG show opens on the Internet

If you missed Douglas Coupland's hit exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery last summer, you now have a chance to enjoy it virtually.

The show, called everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, is now available to audiences around the world through Google Art Project. 

You can look at all 74 artworks in high-resolution, but we like the way you can "walk" through the exhibition in Google Street View and see some of his crazy collections displayed on plywood shelves--thermoses, hockey helmets, ceramic figurines--the way they were originally displayed from May to September of last year. Other highlights include The Ice Storm, a room-filling re-creation of a metal tower felled by the infamous tempest that hit Eastern Canada;Towers, the wonderfully mishmashed, crowd-sourced Lego work that resulted from workshops Coupland and the VAG headed in late 2013; and Slogans for the 21st Century, a wall-filling work of signs with words like "EPIC FAIL" and "MIND=BLOWN".

With Coupland's interest in digital and information culture, we can't think of a better contender for the virtual site. Or as Daina Augaitis, chief curator and associate director at the VAG (who curated this show) put it in a press statement today: “Douglas Coupland is one of the first living Canadian artists to be featured on Google Art Project. It is a compelling and relevant way to showcase Coupland’s art through Google’s powerful platform, as the artist frequently addresses the impact of technology in present-day society in his practice.”   

The exhibition also lives on as it travels across the country: it will soon open in Toronto in a joint presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (January 31 to April 19) and the Royal Ontario Museum (January 31 to April 26).