The Art Gallery of Windsor Needs Your Help…

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• Here is what happened when the City of Toronto took over Theatre Passe Muraille last year as a measure to keep it afloat.

  http://www.passemuraille.on.ca/About/media-press.html

  A success.

• i can kinda see where oliver is coming from. when they were in the mall i went in there a few times and EVERY time, i was followed around by some member of the staff. not to tell me about what i was looking at, but to sneer and make sure i wasn't going to steal one of the....what was it? ah, i beleive it was a bunch of animal legs hanging from the ceiling. art?.....prehaps to someone i suppose. not sure what it was supposed to symbolize...but no one was around to explain. maybe it's cause i was wearing a sombrarro, which is strictly forbidden in the AGW LOL! and yes...at least at the time, there WAS a sign telling you you couldn't wear one :) coulda been the mohawk too...who knows, didn't mean i was gonna wreck the place or was being disorderly and can't comprehend art.
  but aside from my own bad experiences there, it is defininitly a community asset which deserves support. noone can argue that an art gallery doesn't contibute to the livability of a city.
  so long as it's not stuffed with the same garbage that's on the riverfront.

• Shawn- I was merely commenting on Oliver's original post with sarcasm...

• Ah, sorry Colin. Missing sarcasm, a "common" mistake.

• No my comment is based from talking to a neighbour who is a retired from the Art Gallery. He did not like the mall. too many common people( his words not mine) unable to appreciate what they see. Only coming in to waste time, mine and theirs.

• Oliver, hopefully your neighbour's attitude toward the general public is not typical of the AGW. Otherwise the "commoners" would have every right to object financing art snobs. A public institution like AGW should welcome all. And if someone walks in who supposedly can't appreciate art, then it's the employee's position to help teach-instill that appreciation, not shrug off those visitors as a waste of time.

• One guy's opinion is not the institutional opinion (which I can't speak for, of course) but in many visits to the AGW I don't see anything that isn't welcoming to everybody. The AGW is also ridiculously cheap (the AGO up here is $18).

• City Council didn't pass the loan (note: not a grant). The AGW's prospects don't look very good. It won't be long now before the AGW building ends up on this blog as a dilapidated building with interesting historical footnotes by Andrew that makes you wonder how the city ever went so wrong to let it get to that point like lord knows how many other buildings talked about on this blog. And so goes the AGW does a pile of other local events and festivals like WIFF and MediaCity, which will die on the vine with them. Just as WIFF got listed as one of the best 100 Festivals in Ontario too - apparently toursits and people interested in the arts only have monopoly money and Windsor isn't interested in having that money in the city.

• Why am I not in the least surprised? Especially, since I was reading in the Star the other day about Fast Eddie's positive feasibility report and plans to squeeze every taxpayer's last penny for his pipe dream canal.

• Just curious what makes up the bulk of this, Windsor Star reported, estimated $60 million collection. I never saw DIA calibre artwork there like Monets and Picassos. All I saw were photographs and contemporary art. Do they have classic masterpieces hidden away in some vault somewhere?