Visitor Activities

A world-class art encounter waits at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Located in a stunning, turn-of-the century heritage building in the heart of downtown Vancouver; the Gallery showcases four floors of inspirational art pleasures including Canada’s largest collection of beloved artist Emily Carr’s work, to ever-changing world-class exhibitions.
SPRING 2012 exhibitions include: Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (February 25 to June 3, 2012). Using hip hop and other forms of popular music and culture, this new generation of artists break with traditional representations of Aboriginal identity to create surprising new cultural hybrids - in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. Lights Out!: Canadian Painting from the 1960s (February 18 to April 29, 2012) The Vancouver Art Gallery holds a rich collection of paintings from the 1960s that reflect the diversity and strength of this tumultuous era. Works range from the colour-field works of Jack Bush and bold optical images of Claude Tousignant, to the haunting figurative works of Jack Chambers and Jean-Paul Lemieux.
Be sure to leave extra time to rest your feet at the city-famous Gallery Café and to peruse the Gallery’s Store for fantastic gift ideas. www.vanartgallery.bc.ca for more details.