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Extravagant Glamour: Art Deco Chic at MOV

by Dana Lynch in Town on March 8, 2012

Art Deco Chic exhibit at MOV. Photo: Dana Lynch

Last night, I attended the opening night party for the Museum of Vancouver’s (MOV) newest exhibition: Art Deco Chic: Extravagant Glamour Between the Wars. Not only did we get to be the first official visitors to see the new exhibit, it was a smashing party, too, complete with a packed house, visitors decked out in their own Art Deco garb, wine, food, and a live dance performance!

Of course, it was the Art Deco Chic exhibit itself that inspired the party, which is only natural since the exquisite garments on display seem to want a fabulous event to attend. (Even the day dresses are glamourous!) The exhibit brings together 66 items that epitomize Art Deco fashion, clothes and accessories from the 1920s – 1930s; most items come from the private collections of Guest Curators Ivan Sayers and Claus Jahnke, as well as MOV’s own extensive archive.

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openMOV: MOV’s 70,000 Collection Now Online

by Dana Lynch in Town on November 15, 2011

Ferguson Point Tea House flyer, c. 1951 to 1960; one of the many Vancouver artifacts accessible online at openMOV. Photo: Museum of Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) has just made it easier to learn more about Vancouver’s storied history with openMOV, a new online database that lets users access all 70,000 artifacts in the Museum’s collection.

Custom-made for MOV by Vancouver‐based Fuse Interactive, openMOV allows users to search for objects by keyword, by “department” (e.g., Asian Studies, History), by “Geocultural area,” and by place of origin. Currently, only 10,000 items are accompanied by images, but MOV plans to increase that number as quickly as possible.

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Chosen Family Portraits at MOV

by Dana Lynch in Vancouverites on August 10, 2011

One of the Vancouver family portraits on display at MOV's "Chosen Family Portraits" exhibit. Photo: MOV

“There are the families we are born with and there are the families that we choose.”

That’s the theme of a engaging new exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV): Chosen Family Portraits. Created in conjunction with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Chosen Family Portraits is a community-based art project that lovingly captures “chosen” (i.e., not necessarily biologically or legally linked) families among Vancouver’s queer, gay, lesbian, and transgender population.

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Uniquely Vancouver: SweaterLodge Unlatched at the Museum of Vancouver

by Dana Lynch in Entertainment on January 6, 2011

SweaterLodge at Museum of Vancouver

If you’ve ever imagined what it would be like to live inside your polar fleece, now’s your chance to find out.

MOV, the Museum of Vancouver, kicks off 2011 with a new exhibit that is uniquely Vancouver: a mammoth polarfleece sweater that becomes a soft, architectural lodge. Titled SweaterLodge, the piece was created by Vancouver design studio Pechet and Robb Art and Architecture and was chosen to represent Canada at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture. It’s exhibition at MOV is the first time SweaterLodge has been remounted in Canada.

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Uniquely Vancouver: SweaterLodge Unlatched at the Museum of Vancouver

Home Grown: Local Sustainable Food at MOV

by Dana Lynch in Green City on August 20, 2010

Allen Garr, beekeeper and journalist, with some of his 60,000 plus bees on the six acres “living roof” of the Vancouver Convention Centre. Photograph by Brian Harris.

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) explores Vancouver’s growing passion for local sustainable food with Home Grown, a new exhibit of 39 large-scale Brian Harris photographs opening August 26, 2010. The exhibit uses these huge images of Vancouver’s “urban agriculture” as both artistic expression and to educate the viewer about the local farming happening all around us (that we may not know about), from the beekeepers atop the Vancouver Convention Centre to inner city gardeners.

MOV has lots of activities and events planned around Home Grown, including talks and tours with growers, activists and chefs, family workshops, and the Food and Beers Speaker Series, a series of talks and panel discussions hosted by acclaimed Canadian journalist and founder of The Tyee, David Beers. Free with admission to Home Grown, the Food and Beers series includes a night with James McKinnon and Alisa Smith, the authors of The 100 Mile Diet (November 25, 2010), and a chance to meet Vancouver food writers (December 8, 2010).

Also on the MOV menu: the FREE MOV-ie in the Park, a FREE screening of Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman in Vanier Park this Monday, August 23.

Home Grown: Local Sustainable Food is at MOV from August 26, 2010 – January 2, 2011.