Vancouver Art Gallery is on my 'Canada-to-do-list'. I woke up and I saw today is perfect day for art gallery visit. It rains heavily since early morning. Looks like it will never stop. The weather fits as well with my plan to meet painting teacher and agree on painting class.
The trip starts in cafe Artigiano (http://www.caffeartigiano.com/) with delicious coffee - latte and lemon/coconut crumble bar. I will get back to Vancouver's coffee culture in one of my coming posts as it is worth more than just few lines.
After breakfast is time for arts. Current exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery - Grand Hotel (http://projects.vanartgallery.bc.ca/publications/Hotel/exhibition-page/) - introduces the concept of hotel in its four aspects - travel, design, social and culture.
All aspects are presented on most interesting and famous hotels in USA, Canada, UK, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan, Finland, France and Switzerland.
Most interesting information for me were history of hotels on Road 66 (http://www.historic66.com/) and the story of Las Vegas and it's first hotel and casino Flamingo (http://www.flamingolasvegas.com/) - the beginning of the Las Vegas Strip.
Granville Island (http://granvilleisland.com/) is the place where artists and musicians have their studios, galleries and shops. It is easy to spend a day here and I am sure you will want to come back again. Cafes, shops, markets full of arts, fresh food and interesting goods create very pleasant and inspiring atmosphere.
My painting class comes on July 20th!
The trip starts in cafe Artigiano (http://www.caffeartigiano.com/) with delicious coffee - latte and lemon/coconut crumble bar. I will get back to Vancouver's coffee culture in one of my coming posts as it is worth more than just few lines.
After breakfast is time for arts. Current exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery - Grand Hotel (http://projects.vanartgallery.bc.ca/publications/Hotel/exhibition-page/) - introduces the concept of hotel in its four aspects - travel, design, social and culture.
All aspects are presented on most interesting and famous hotels in USA, Canada, UK, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan, Finland, France and Switzerland.
Most interesting information for me were history of hotels on Road 66 (http://www.historic66.com/) and the story of Las Vegas and it's first hotel and casino Flamingo (http://www.flamingolasvegas.com/) - the beginning of the Las Vegas Strip.
Former communist countries were represented by Russian hotel Rossiya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiya_Hotel). Located just next to Kremlin, Rossiya was in its time the biggest hotel in the World. Known for its terrible service and very small rooms the hotel was closed down and the demolition started in 2006 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqxMxsdpTiE). The very attractive location is now under construction. I was surprised I found among few pictures and historical documents related to hotel Rossiya three Czech stickers from early sixties - adds for hotel Družba in Prague and in Rakovnik.
I have spend the second half of the day on Granville Island - location of the Vancouver's famous arts school - Emily Carr University of Art + Design (http://www.ecuad.ca/). 
My painting class comes on July 20th!
What kind of painting class did you enrol in? Can we expect great things from future-snowcat-painter or is it 'only' a weekend-refresher-type-of-class? I am also wondering if classes like this are relatively affordable...so, you see, lots of questions despite your long blogpost. Sorry for that ;))
ReplyDeleteMarty, I will get back to topic Painting as soon as I experience it :-) ... stay tuned ...
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