Friday's Vancouver Sun (online) featured an interview with the Vancouver Art Gallery's new CEO and director Anthony Kiendl. As usual, the focus is on a new building, with a review of what is now a 12-year effort to break ground at the designated site (Larwill Park) and of Kiendl's past work as a fundraiser/builder at Winnipeg's Plug In and Regina's MacKenzie.
There's lots to read between the lines in this interview, but something that stood out was Kiendl's use of language. On the topic of the new VAG, Kiendl is now using the promise of a green building to woo a $100 million in funding from a climate-sensitive federal government, yet in describing the partnership he formed with the University of Winnipeg towards a purpose-built Plug In, he drops a fossil-fuel metaphor: "That's what gave us the gasoline and critical mass to make that project happen."
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