[BCMA] CMA Clip Serv: Olympics boost VAG attendance to record levels

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Great that the attendance was up - breaking previous records. Was the 
attendance free during the final 17 days of Monet to Dali? If it wasn't 
free you are comparing apples with potatoes!!
Being free - isn't going to help pay for the cost of keeping the VAG open.
Loretta

Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. wrote:
> *Olympics boost VAG attendance to record levels*
> Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, March 2, 2010
>
> Nearly 100,000 people passed through the doors of the Vancouver Art 
> Gallery during the Olympics – a gallery record. With line-ups that 
> went around the block, more than 95,000 people visited the gallery 
> between February 12 and 28.
>
> That easily breaks the previous attendance record of 65,649 – set in 
> 2007 during the final 17 days of Monet to Dali: Modern Masters from 
> the Cleveland Museum of Art.
>
> Admission to the VAG was free during the Olympics – and will be free 
> once again during the Paralympic Games – as the gallery is also the 
> site of the BC Canada Pavilion.
>
> The VAG is home to some crowd-pleasing programming at the moment, with 
> Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man, a companion exhibition 
> Visceral Bodies, and Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, 
> featuring works by iconic British Columbians, ranging from Emily Carr 
> to Jeff Wall.
>
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