VAG

VAG is notorious for being somewhat lower grade when it comes to museum security, a reason that the truly great pieces of art don’t always make it to Vancouver.

Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson 2009

I wrote a letter to the VAG, not that it will do much good (years ago I used to volunteer there until they started charging their volunteers – yep, pay to volunteer).

Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson 2009

In the past, some of the VAG shows were really lacking so it was a pleasant surprise.

Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson 2009

It looks like Roy Arden is trying to make the case for an iconic building designed by a Libeskind or Ghery of this world, for the VAG.

The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

It is this approach that has made VAG turn the fortunes of the ailing Czech auto manufacturer Skoda, from the butt of every European car joke into a brand respected for quality and reliability in little under a decade.

Gavin D. J. Harper: Why the World Needs Green Motors, not General Motors... 2009

It's also by turns enraging and demoralizing to see how much work of Graham, Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall et al. is hung in the VAG, promoted, reproduced etc.

Random thoughts Lemon Hound 2009

But in a way, given the number of Limeys in Los Angeles — most of them members of VAG, the Villains Actor Guild — to honor Hollywood is to honor Albion.

Are the BAFTAs really that British?: Julian Sancton Sancton, Julian 2009

WAG is not doing what it should do - LEAD WALES to greater things, instead it is turning into an unmitigated disaster - mainly because it doesn't listen to common sense arguments and believes wrongly that the way it does things is the only right way, well, objective independent OECD and VAG stats say differently.

Tories making the best of it. Glyn Davies 2008

Some Vancouverites are worried not only about the cost of staging the exhibition at the VAG, but also about the carte blanche Mau seems to have gotten from the museum in putting it on.

CHAIRMAN MAU 2007

Take the recent Fred Herzog exhibit at the VAG, which offers spectacular Kodachrome images, historically and culturally important, but predictable in composition and subject matter.

Archive 2007-04-01 Lemon Hound 2007