Grand Hotel traces the hotel's evolution from the isolated and utilitarian inns that punctuated ancient trade routes to a cultural phenomenon that figures prominently in the global landscape. Terms like "boutique" and "lifestyle" have become ubiquitous buzzwords in the vocabulary of the hotel, and they engender a new vision of an affective and responsive spatial environment. Grand Hotel offers a compelling reflection on the role of the hotel as a conduit that absorbs and reconfigures contemporary culture

Grand Hotel is edited by Jennifer M. Volland and Bruce Grenville with Stephanie Rebick, and features texts by William F. Baker, Todd Gannon, Bruce Grenville, Brad A. Johnson, Norman Klein, Thomas Y. Levin, Karina Longworth, Cédric Morisset, Rebecca Morse, Suzanne Oxenaar, Stephanie Rebick, Leonard Sanders, Michael Turner, Jennifer M. Volland and Matthew Weiner. Graphic design by Derek Barnett.

Since receiving international acclaim in the mid-1980s for his portraits of Italian aristocratic families, photographer Patrick Faigenbaum has situated his work within the heart of the pictorial tradition, emphasizing the expressive power of photography and its position within the lineage of art history. The Patrick Faigenbaum catalogue accompanies the first major exhibition of Faigenbaum's work in North America in almost two decades and features photographs from various bodies of work from the 1970s to the present.

Published by the Vancouver Art Gallery on the occasion of the Patrick Faigenbaum exhibition, March 9 to June 2, 2013, curated by Director Kathleen S. Bartels and artist Jeff Wall.

The creative work of Pulitzer Prize laureate Art Spiegelman, who is described as the most influential living cartoonist, is presented in the 2012 book CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, representing the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist's oeuvre. Associated with a major international exhibition tour, this book includes seminal texts by J. Hoberman, former film critic at the Village Voice for over 30 years and the author or editor of 11 books, and Robert Storr, currently the Dean of the Yale University School of Art and formerly the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Published by Flammarion in France, this book is a special edition produced with the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Hope at Dawn: Watercolours by Emily Carr and Charles John Collings, published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, is the first book to compare the watercolours of Emily Carr to those of Charles John Collings. The book includes over sixty reproductions of the artists' works and an essay by Ian Thom.

Featuring work by over 25 artists and essays by Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard, Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture is a catalogue of the exhibition presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 25 to June 3, 2012, as well as at several venues across Canada throughout 2013 and 2014.

4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of a series of catalogues produced by curator Lucy R. Lippard. Drawn from material originally published between 1969 and 1974, 4,492,040 includes reprints of all four of the catalogues from Lippard's hugely important “numbers shows”-a series of exhibitions named for the populations of the cities they were held in: 557,087 (Seattle), 955,000 (Vancouver), c.7,500 (Valencia, California) and 2,972,453 (Buenos Aires). As with the originals, 4,492,040 is made up of a collection of loose notecards containing statements, documentation and conceptual works by each artist, to be rearranged, filed or discarded at will. This new edition is supplemented by a new afterword by Lippard.

358 Pages. Edited by Jeff Khonsary. Co-presented with the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Seattle Art Museum.

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the first publication and exhibition to track the complex, rigorous and diverse manifestations of conceptual art in Canada. Presenting work by more than 90 artists in a beautifully produced book, Traffic examines the particular local and geographic needs and interests enacted by individual artists, collectives and art communities from across the country.

Traffic was co-published by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), Halifax INK and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

SPIRITLANDS: t/HERE, published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, features work produced by Marian Penner Bancroft between 1975 and 2000. The book attests to the remarkable breadth of Penner Bancroft's practice and its place within the critical debates on photography that played a crucial role in the visual arts during the closing years of the 20th century and that continue to inform art making today.

Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, published by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing, is the most substantial, informative book on Ian Wallace, who is one of Canada's most significant and influential Canadian artists of the latter half of the twentieth century. Contributors to the book include Grant Arnold, Daina Augaitis, Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Stan Douglas, Jessica Morgan, Christine Poggi, Kathleen Ritter, Ian Wallace and William Wood.