Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Hot Shopping: Read It

Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Forget the latest Tom Clancy or Danielle Steel novel: spend your next airline flight poring over the pages of Red: A Haida Manga by local First Nations artist/storyteller Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre, $28.95). This genre-defying book, filled with 108 pages of vibrant, hand-painted illustrations, tells a classic Haida oral narrative in the graphic-novel format. It’ll keep you riveted right to the very last page. Available at local bookstores. —Sheri Radford

Hot Art: Homage

Contemporary box by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

Prolific Haida artist Bill Reid may be a tough act to follow, with more than 1,500 pieces in his repetoire, but the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art salutes the work of contemporary First Nations artists in Continuum: Vision and Creativity on the Northwest Coast (to Jan. 31). Art with a decidedly modern spin still respects Reid’s groundbreaking techniques, including a box (pictured) by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas that echoes Reid’s well-known “Master of the Black Field” bentwood box.—Kristina Urquhart