Frontier Modernism: A Lecture by Sarah Milroy, Acclaimed Curator and Writer WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 3:00 pm WHERE: UBC Robson Square, Theatre C300 800 Robson Street TICKETS: $35 General admission/$25 members/$20 students* available at vanartgallery.bc.ca *Doors open 2:30 p.m. All tickets are general admission and seating is first come, first seated. Please note that the … Read more
Susan Point – Audain Prize Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed – VIVA Award Charlene Vickers –VIVA Award When: 7:00 pm, Thursday, May 24, 2018 Where: The Four Seasons Hotel This Awards Ceremony is free and open to the public On May 24, 2018, The Vancouver Art Gallery will present four distinguished BC artists … Read more
Offsite Installation Showcases Renowned Japanese Architect’s Visionary Design for Earthquake Disaster Relief On view: May 11 to October 8, 2018 This spring, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents Offsite: Shigeru Ban. This exhibition organized by the Gallery’s Institute of Asian Art features the full-scale version of renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Kobe Paper Log House at … Read more
BC’s 20th Century Landscape Examined Through Paintings and Photographs by Prolific Artists The Vancouver Art Gallery announces a new exhibition uniting the works of two women artists practicing in British Columbia in the early twentieth century in Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman, on view at the Gallery from April 28 to September … Read more
With a shared affinity for stimulating the senses, Faubourg Paris and the Vancouver Art Gallery have partnered for the Cézanne and the Modern exhibit, open now until May 18, 2015. After enjoying a selection of authentic French delicacies at Faubourg Paris (769 Hornby Street), customers can enjoy $3 off Vancouver Art Gallery admission by using code “Faubourg 2015” at the ticket desk. … Read more
It’s lunch time? Are you tired of the same old, same old and brown bag lunch? Then you have to go to Vancouver Art Gallery’s North Plaza for Tourism Vancouver’s Dine Out Vancouver Festival and the five days of “so not a brown bag lunch” served up al fresco daily by at least 15 of … Read more
In terms of internationally historic cities Vancouver is still in its infancy. Still we do have our own urban historic sites or in some cases the memories and archives of sites within the city that have historic or even just sentimental meaning.
Just a short stroll from the Vancouver City Centre Station is the iconic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, lovingly referred to as the ‘Castle in the City,’ by locals. The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is one of the oldest and grandest hotels in Vancouver. Opened in 1939 as a joint project of the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, the hotel has hosted King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.