Last post for a few days

Heading up to the Vancouver Art Gallery for a few days to catch this exhibition:

The Colour of My Dreams
The most comprehensive exhibition of Surrealist art ever to be shown in this country will open at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 28, 2011. The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art features 350 works by leading Surrealist artists, including Andr� Breton, Salvador Dal�, Max Ernst, Ren� Magritte, Joan Mir�, Alberto Giacometti, Leonora Carrington, Brassa�, Andr� Masson, Man Ray, Edith Rimmington, Wifredo Lam and many others.

Guest curated by Dawn Ades, internationally renowned expert on Surrealist art, The Colour of My Dreams will be shown exclusively at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Ades has selected works of art that underscore the Surrealists� radical sense of experimentation and the expansive range of mediums in which they worked, including painting, sculpture, collage, photography and film. The exhibition provides a stunning overview of one of most important movements of the 20th century and features a number of signature works by more than 80 artists including Dali�s Lobster Telephone, Ernst�s The Forest, Mir��s Photo: This is the Colour of My Dreams, Giacometti�s Spoon Woman, Carrington�s The House Opposite and Man Ray�s Emak-Bakia, among many others. It will also reveal, for the first time, the Surrealists� passionate interest in indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest and the little-known influence of early Hollywood cinema on the development of Surrealist film.

This historic exhibition brings together loans from more than sixty of the world�s foremost private collections, museums and galleries, including the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Israel Museum, the Mus�e du quai Branly, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and Tate.

Also stopping at Ikea to get some things for the house. Back Thursday afternoon sometime -- not taking the laptop.