A lot has been said about the reopening of the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. So much so that I don’t want this piece by Kristine Nutting on Prairie Artsters to get missed.

Ted Kerr, as always, phrased it so well in a small Facebook discussion:

It would be easy to suggest that she is being anti-change or anti-modern but in truth she is asking us how we move ‘forward’ and what that means, and what we are leaving behind.

An excerpt:

I was at the Art Gallery of Alberta’s swishy opening party, Refinery, for the young swish set of Edmonton last night. Perhaps what was noticeable right off the bat was the lack of strangers there, the lack of people unknown. All the people neatly clung to their identifiable groups. There were no strangers to flirt with, no one even alone, as though people don’t do that: go anywhere alone. All of them coupled off save for a few of the power lesbians in town who I am often left to flirt with by default. I had no idea art gallery openings were a date thing. I proceeded to look at this new miracle of Edmonton all by myself.

The rest at Prairie Artsters