To the editor:
It seems rather incredible that Vancouver Art Gallery director Katherine Bartels and Mayor Gregor Robertson want to see at least $350 million invested in a new art gallery when all around us independent arts and culture institutions-theatres, bookstores, smaller galleries, and cultural venues like the Waldorf are dropping like flies. Moreover, individual artists are barely keeping their heads above water.
This seems to be a megaproject approach. Instead of nurturing the thousands of seeds that could make a city like Vancouver a creative and yeasty place, you put all or most of the resources into one "world class" institution that arguably is not needed.
Some of us like and appreciate the VAG just the way it is.
Don Alexander, Vancouver
