New Vancouver Art Gallery | Proposed

[nikw]

In a way i am dissapointed that they are MOVING the art gallery. I understand that they need much more space and all, but the current location/building is amazing and perfect for this use. I would have liked to see the Gallery expanded over Robson Square. I find it a useless use of space for what it is. They could fit the needed square footage there if they really wanted.

Hopefully the new tenants of the current building will have something good to go in the Art Galleries place. I hope (and please dont take this the wrong way) that it wont be an aboriginal art museum.

I dont understand why there is so much in Vancouver anyway. I understand that there should be some and i quite like it, but people have to understand that this is not what our city is about. We are a city of over 2 million and the percentage of aboriginal peoples is what 1? 2? percent? When people look at Vancouver they should se what we really are, a wonderful, modern, cosmopolitan, metropolis. Its like at the closing ceremonies of the Turin Olympics in 2006. Our presentation portrayed Vancouver as an aboriginal city, which we are not. I recently went on a trip to Florida and believe me some people there (who really had no idea abot the world around them) thought that in Vancouver we live in longhouses, huts etc. I understand that this is not the norm for people to think but when you see this on TV (turin closing ceremonies) and you are one of those people that isnt really interested in the world outside from your own, this is what people see Vancovuer as.

As I said earlier I have no issues at all with aboriginal anything, and I like most of the art that there is around Vancouver....but I think that we must keep this to a minimum, as this is not what Vancovuer is.

(especially because that in 20 years the majority of people in Vancouver will be of Asian descent.