This Blog Is Going Smash

Big night ahead of us and I am starting my Monday with wedding-weekend weariness. In other words, already looking ahead to the next bit of time off. One of my favourite quarterly events is coming up this Friday: FUSE summer edition. This promises to offer some fantastic people watching, what with the Surrealism blockbuster and hopefully gorgeous evening weather. You can’t beat sitting on the gallery steps or terrace with a gin martini and quirksters giving each other the ol’ eyeball. If you are already a VAG member the evening is free. Performers include MOVE the company, House of La Douche, and The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret. Bring your stache wax and an arsenal of non sequiturs.

Friday, June 17, 2011
8 pm to 1 am
Vancouver Art Gallery

- Laura

Some things you should know about The Vancouver Art Gallery:
It’s in a beautiful old courthouse building and, like all beautiful things, it’s too small to be of much practical use. Most of Vancouver’s art is sitting in the basement in what used to be drunk tanks.

If you want to read about their proposed move to a bigger space in the middle of a parking lot on Georgia and Cambie, you can click here for a website – and here for a news release.

About once a month I’ll be photographing at both locations.

At the VAG until September 5: Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker and Eadweard Muybridge

_If anyone is having a slumber party and watching La Jetée invite me, I’ll bring popcorn so we don’t feel too pretentious.
Thanks,
- Jim

Some things you should know about Ken Lum:
He put those boats on the Vancouver Art Gallery roof.
He used to work as an illlustrator down at the library, and as a pestologist for the Ministry of the Environment.
In 1999 he was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow, but we all love him because he made that East Van sign that you’ve been thinking about getting tatooed on the side of your neck.

His work is fantastic. If you want to do yourself a favour, go down to the VAG and check out the exhibit they’ve got up. There’s a mirror coated labyrinth, so you know it’ll be good.

Some things you should know about The Vancouver Art Gallery:
It’s in a beautiful old courthouse building and, like all beautiful things, it’s too small to be of much practical use.
Most of Vancouver’s art is sitting in the basement in what used to be drunk tanks.
If you want to read about their proposed move to a bigger space in the middle of a parking lot on Georgia and Cambie, you can click here for a website – and here for a news release.

About once a month I’ll be photographing at both locations.

Thanks,
- Jim