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ARTSY HOTELS
While visiting art lovers might find it difficult to roll out a sleeping bag and kip
among the exhibits at the Vancouver Art Gallery, there are some places in town
that positively encourage it ( sanssleeping bag). The newly revamped Rose-
wood Hotel Georgia (
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has arguably the city's best hotel art collection.
Dominated by modern Canadian art, the hotel's public spaces have a gallery feel
with abstract works by the likes of Alan Wood, Marcel Baebeau and Guido Molin-
ari studding the walls. The highlight, though, is in the lobby and it's the only
piece by a non-Canadian artist. Entitled Internity, the 3D work by Brit artist Pat-
rick Hughes shifts perspective as you move in front of it and is a real eye-popper.
But the Hotel Georgia isn't the only Vancouver hotel with an artistic bent.
Calling itself the city's 'art hotel, the Listel Hotel (
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has a curatorial ar-
rangement with several local galleries and museums that means its corridors
are lined with display cases of intriguing art; First Nations carvings and contem-
porary abstract works dominate. Many of its rooms eschew generic landscapes
in favor of limited-edition prints. Attached to the hotel is the Stewart Stephen-
son Modern Art Gallery, where you can watch artwork being created and maybe
pick up a top-notch piece to hang on your wall back home. Adding to its creative
credentials, the Listel has even produced its own book: an anthology of
Vancouver-themed short stories, with contributions from Douglas Coupland
and William Gibson, among others.
Guests who stay at the Shangri-La Hotel (
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should be a bit bookish,
since on their pillow they'll find a copy of the 1930s novel Lost Horizons,which
details the discovery of a hidden utopia in the Himalayas. Alongside its own im-
pressive wall-mounted art collection, the hotel has also made a fantastic artistic
contribution to the city in creating the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, just outside
the hotel's entrance. This new free-access public art area includes a couple of
eye-catching alfresco art shows every year. These have so far included a series
of giant photos of Chinese children and a clutch of highly detailed scale models
of cannery sheds that recall the area's fishing industry past.
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