The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is an art museum located at 750 Hornby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is a permanent collection of about 11,000 artworks includes more than 200 major works by Emily Carr, the Group of Seven, Jeff Wall, Harry Callahan and Marc Chagall.

The gallery has 3,850 square metres (41,400 sq ft) of exhibition space and more than 11,000 works in its collection, most notably its Emily Carr collection. It has also amassed a significant collection of photographs. In addition to exhibitions of its own collection, the gallery regularly hosts international touring exhibitions. The gallery also features a variety of public programmes and lectures. The gallery also has a gift shop, a café, and a library.

The Vancouver Art Gallery was founded in 1931 and had its first home at 1145 West Georgia Street. In 1983 it moved to the Hornby Street location, the former provincial courthouse. It was renovated at a cost of $20 million by architect Arthur Erickson, which completed his modern three city-block Robson Square complex. The gallery connects to the rest of the complex via an underground passage below Robson Street to an outdoor plaza, restaurants, the University of British Columbia’s downtown satellite campus, government offices, and the new Law Courts at the southern end.

In March 2007, the 2010 Olympic countdown clock was placed in the front lawn of the VAG. It was open for free for the public to see. The clock has since been disassembled, with one half going to BC Place and the other to Whistler Village.

In November 2007, the gallery announced plans to move to a new building at Larwill Park, a block formerly occupied by a bus depot on the corner of Cambie and Georgia streets opposite the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The new building would be about 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft), almost 10 times the current building size, and would include more gallery space for the permanent collection now in storage, a larger exhibit space for visiting international works, more children’s and community programming, and an improved storage and display environment. Construction was planned to begin after the 2010 Olympics with a tentative opening date in 2013. The projected cost was in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the gallery hoped to secure funding from provincial and federal governments, as well as private donors.

In May 2008, a different site was chosen for the new gallery, on land occupied by the Plaza of Nations near BC Place. The new plans would double the gallery size to 320,000 square feet (30,000 m2). In 2013, the decision was made to go back to the Georgia and Cambie site.

In April 2014, Vancouver Art Gallery selected Herzog & de Meuron, from a group of five shortlisted firms, from across the globe following a series of in-depth interviews and site visits to significant projects designed by each firm. The finalists, announced in January 2014, represented five of 75 firms from 16 different countries, who submitted their credentials through an open request for qualifications (RFQ) process issued by the gallery. The new Vancouver Art Gallery building is Herzog & de Meuron’s first project in Canada, working in collaboration with Vancouver-based Perkins + Will as executive architect in the realization of the design.

In September 2015, the gallery unveiled its conceptual design for the new building in a public event held at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

The art gallery is located in the former main courthouse for Vancouver. The 165,000-square-foot (15,300 m2) neoclassical building was designed by Francis Rattenbury after winning a design competition in 1905. Rattenbury also designed the British Columbia Parliament Buildings and the Empress Hotel in Victoria. The building was used as a provincial courthouse until 1979, with the provincial courts moving to the Law Courts, located south of the building.[4] The building was named a National Historic Site of Canada in 1980.[4] Both the main and annex portions of the building are municipally designated “A” heritage structures. The Vancouver Art Gallery moved into the former courthouse in 1983.

The design includes ionic columns, a central dome, formal porticos, and ornate stonework. The building was constructed using marble imported from Alaska, Tennessee, and Vermont. The new building was constructed in 1906 and replaced the previous courthouse located at Victory Square. At the time, the building contained 18 courtrooms. An annex designed by Thomas Hooper was added to the western side of the building in 1912. The Annex Building is the only part of the VAG that was not converted to use as an art gallery. It was declared a heritage site and retains the original judges’ benches and walls as they were when the building was a courthouse.

On the Georgia Street side of the building was the Centennial Fountain. This fountain was installed in 1966 to commemorate the centennial of the union of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The Centennial Fountain was removed in 2017 as part of the Georgia Street plaza renovations. The plaza opened to the public in late 2017.

A regular gathering spot for protests and demonstrations, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s lawn and steps hosts gatherings several times a week. The Vancouver Art Gallery is the monthly meeting spot for Vancouver’s Critical Mass, as well as flash mobs, the Zombie Walk, pro-marijuana rallies, and numerous environmental demonstrations. The steps on both the Robson Street and Georgia Street sides of the building are popular gathering spots for protest rallies. The Georgia Street side is also a popular place in the summertime for people to relax or socialize.

The Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection includes approximately 11,000 works from Canadian, and international artists, and acts as the principal repository of works produced in the region. The collection is organized into several smaller departments, contemporary art from Asia, photography and conceptual photography, works by indigenous Canadian artists, and artists from Vancouver and British Columbia.

The gallery’s European historical collection includes Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century by Jan Anthoniszoon van Ravestyn (1570–1657), Jan Wynants (1630/35–1684), Isaac van Ostade (1621–1649), Pieter Neefs the Elder (1578–1656), Jacob Marrel (1614–1681), Jan van Huysum (1682–1749), Balthasar van der Ast (1590–1656), Ambrosium Bosschaert the Younger (1609–1645), Jan Josefsz van Goyen (1596–1665), Abraham Storck (1635–1710), Roelof de Vries (1631 – c.1681), Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), Adriaen van der Kabel (1631–1705), Salomon van Ruysdael (1600–1670), Flemish-Cornelius de Heem (1631–1695), Roelandt Savery (1576–1639), and a fine first edition of Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes’ Disasters of War.

The Vancouver Art Gallery Library and Archives is a non-circulating collection specializing in modern, contemporary and Canadian art. The Library holds more than 45,000 books and exhibition catalogues, 100 journal subscriptions, 5,000 files on Canadian artists, sound recordings, slides and auction catalogues that document painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, video and emerging art forms.

The Archives contain the official papers and records of the gallery’s activities since its founding in 1931. In addition, there are the personal papers of painter and educator B.C. Binning and the Bill Bissett special collection, which comprises over 100 items, including books and serials where Bill Bissett’s concrete poetry was published.

The Vancouver Art Gallery offers a wide range of public programs throughout the year, including FUSE, scholar’s lectures, artist’s talks, as well as dance and musical performances. In its most recent year, the gallery has featured over 60 presenters, including Timothy Brook, writer Sarah Milroy, and leading Emily Carr scholar, Gerta Moray. In May 2015, the gallery welcomed architect Jacques Herzog as he presented his first lecture in Canada on architecture and the new Vancouver Art Gallery building.

Every Sunday, the Vancouver Art Gallery offers Weekly Family Programs, welcoming all children under the age of 12 to attend the gallery and its events free of admission costs. In addition to Weekly Family Programs, the gallery holds its Family FUSE Weekend event 3-4 times per year.

Elon Musk has been in the news recently for his attempts to acquire Twitter for a reported $44 billion.

Since that deal might be on hold for now, he’s found the time to finally dig his teeth into 2022’s most beloved open-world game Elden Ring.

Now, after finally sharing details about his character, he’s received a massive amount of criticism on the very website he’s aiming to purchase.

The 50-year-old billionaire tweeted out his character’s build on May 24, showing off his “power mage” build.

The tweet revealed his level 111 character with a focus on high Mind and Intelligence stats.

Many Elden Ring players were quick to point out just how bad his gear is paired together, focusing on the fact he was wielding two shields at once and opting for a heavy roll.

One user said, “Wtf is this build? I thought this guy was supposed to be a genius?”

Another user mocked his use of a cell phone photo instead of an actual screenshot and said, “Elon Musk posting phone photos of the least efficient Elden Ring build I’ve ever seen proves meritocracy is fake.”

Although Elon Musk might become the owner of Twitter someday, that won’t shield him from its users roasting him when they see fit.

Especially went it comes to something as serious and meticulously thought-out as Elden Ring builds.

When Gwendolen (Frances O’Connor) professes her love to Earnest (Colin Firth), he begins to probe into how she would feel if his name weren’t Earnest.

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A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady, but charming gentlemen from a wealthy family who has a bad habit of throwing his money away. Algernon has a close friend named Jack Worthing (Colin Firth), a self-made man who acts as a ward to his cousin, a beautiful young lady named Cecily (Reese Witherspoon). Algernon has created an alter ego to help him get out of tight spots brought on by his financial improprieties, and when he learns that Jack has created a false identity of his own — Earnest, a brother living in London whose exploits have earned him no small amount of notoriety — Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as the mysterious Earnest. Having heard of Earnest’s misadventures many times over the years, Cecily had developed something of an infatuation with the lovable rogue, and Algernon’s impersonation of him works no small degree of magic on Cecily. Meanwhile, Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolyn (Frances O’Connor), arrives for the weekend, and is startled to discover Jack is also there — except that she knows him as bad-boy Earnest. So just who is in love with who? How will Lady Bracknell (Judi Dench) handle the matter of her daughter Gwendolyn’s suitors? And what’s the truth about Jack’s mysterious heritage? The Importance of Being Earnest was director Oliver Parker’s second film adaptation of an Oscar Wilde comedy; he previously helmed An Ideal Husband, which also starred Rupert Everett. Everett and Colin Firth also co-starred in the 1984 drama Another Country.

Davie Village (also known as Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city’s gay subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood. Davie Village is centred on Davie Street and roughly includes the area between Burrard and Jervis streets. Davie Street—and, by extension, the Village—is named in honour of A.E.B. Davie, eighth Premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889; A.E.B’s brother Theodore was also Premier, from 1892 to 1895.

Along Davie Street are a variety of shops, restaurants, services, and hotels catering to a variety of customers, in addition to private residences. The business with the most notoriety is Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium (“Little Sister’s”), a gay and lesbian bookstore, because of its ongoing legal battles with Canada Customs that have received extensive national media coverage. Many businesses and residents along Davie Street and in the West End generally also fly rainbow flags as a symbol of gay pride, and many of the covered bus stop benches and garbage cans along Davie Street are painted bright pink.

The Village hosts a variety of events during the year, including the Davie Street Pride Festival which runs in conjunction with Vancouver’s annual Gay Pride Parade, during which sections of the street are closed to motor traffic.

Davie Day is also held each year in early September, to celebrate local businesses and the community itself. This Day is designed to build awareness and promote the surrounding businesses, and is focused around Jervis to Burrard Street.

The Davie Street Business Association coined the name “Davie Village” in 1999 and also commissioned banners from local artist Joe Average, which fly from lampposts in the district. The two-sided banners depict a rainbow flag on one side and a sun design by Average on the other.

Davie Village is also home to the offices of Xtra! West, a biweekly LGBT newspaper, Qmunity (formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre) which provides a variety of services for the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents, and the Vancouver Pride Society, which puts on the annual Pride Parade and Festival.

TRUMP – NATIONAL REVIVAL PROMO VIDEO Elon Musk – Reupload from X.

For the second year in a row, a lone Soviet-era tank rolled across Moscow’s Red Square during Russia’s Victory Day parade, prompting social media users to mock President Vladimir Putin’s military’s procession on a day which is traditionally used to display the country’s might.

A single T-34 tank participated in the parade in Moscow to mark May 9, or Victory Day, which is the annual commemoration of Nazi Germany’s defeat during World War II. Like last year, this year’s procession was notably muted in contrast to previous events amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, during which both sides have suffered extensive casualties and have lost vast amounts of military equipment.

Agentstvo, a Russian investigative site, said this year’s modest parade indicates that the war in Ukraine, which began in February 2022, continues to absorb all of the Russian army’s resources.

“Truly hilarious that the T-14 Armata has been found not only too costly to use in Ukraine, but also doesn’t exist in large enough numbers to survive the attrition of the Victory Day Parade in Moscow,” said Oliver Alexander, an OSINT analyst, on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“This T-34, the legendary Soviet tank from World War II, was the only Russian tank on display at the Victory Day parade in Red Square today,” said Max Seddon, Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times. “The others must all be busy somewhere!”

Pro-Ukrainian X user (((Tendar))) wrote: Well, at least it runs.”

Another X user added: “Nothing says second army in the world more than a lonely tank at your victory day parade for a second year in a row.”

Last year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense published a video mocking the lone T-34 tank that participated in Moscow’s Red Square Victory Day parade.

“This Victory Day, Russia had exactly one tank rolling down Red Square…a T-34 first produced in 1940,” the ministry said on X, sharing a 40-second video that included clips from last year’s military parade. It was made up of a montage of clips of the tank, played against the backdrop of Eric Carmen’s hit song “All by Myself.”

More than two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, both Moscow and Kyiv have sustained significant losses.

Dutch open-source intelligence defense analysis website Oryx has visually confirmed that 2,001 Russian tanks have been destroyed, 156 have been damaged, 329 have been abandoned, and 514 have been captured since the start of the war.

Oryx has also visually confirmed that 547 Ukrainian tanks have been destroyed since the beginning of the war, with 68 damaged, 61 abandoned, and 132 captured.

Kyiv’s military said in an update on Thursday that Moscow has lost 7,429 tanks so far, including 11 in the past day. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces posts figures on Russia’s troop and equipment losses as part of its daily update on the war. Newsweek could not independently verify the figures.

Estimates of casualty numbers vary, with Ukraine’s figures usually exceeding those of its Western allies. Moscow rarely shares information on the number of casualties or equipment losses it has sustained in the war.

The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, said in its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine on Wednesday that recent satellite imagery of depleted Russian military vehicle and weapon storage facilities indicates that Moscow is “currently sustaining its war effort largely by pulling from storage rather than by manufacturing new vehicles and certain weapons at scale.”

“Russia is relying on vast Soviet-era stores of vehicles and other equipment to sustain operations and losses in Ukraine,” the think tank said, adding that Moscow will likely struggle to sufficiently equip its units with materiel in the long term without President Vladimir Putin transferring the Russian economy to a wartime footing.