‘High art’ may be another reason to move gallery: Vancouver Art Gallery volunteer tells public meeting that ‘there’s dope wafting through the air’ at current location
As a volunteer at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s acquisitions committee, David Allison gets to spend time in the facility’s basement vault. Not only is there “appalling” leaking down in that basement, he reports, but he revealed another problem Wednesday night: He has been able to detect the scent of marijuana smoke in the air.
“It wafts in from the front steps. So here I am in this room surrounded by Emily Carrs and Group of Seven pieces and all these amazing, amazing contemporary artworks that we have in our possession as a city and as a citizenry, and there’s dope wafting through the air.”
Mr. Allison made the comments at a public information session on the gallery’s proposed relocation from the old courthouse at Robson Square in the centre of downtown to a city-owned block at 150 Dunsmuir Street, the former Larwill Park site. His observations about the storage facility were meant to illustrate the need for the move.
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