One of the pieces of public art placed along the sidewalk on 3rd Street S.W. in downtown Calgary.
Big Daddy
03 Tuesday Dec 2019
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On guard
29 Friday Nov 2019
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Eight seconds to glory
28 Thursday Nov 2019
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A rodeo event that’s definitely set in stone! The sculpture called Eight Seconds to Glory by Shane R.L. Sutherland, along 3rd Street S.W. in downtown Calgary, depicts a bull rider hanging onto his animal. (It looks as if he’ll lose his cowboy hat, however.)
Peering over
24 Sunday Nov 2019
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It’s always a neat challenge to capture this piece of art in a new way. “Conversation” by William McElcheran, on the Stephen Avenue Mall just outside the Hudson’s Bay department store, is seen from behind the shoulder of one of the interlocutors. The image was captured the morning after snow blanketed the city of Calgary a few days ago.
Art with wings
21 Thursday Nov 2019
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One of several murals painted over the last three years as part of the Beltline Urban Murals Project.
Blended into reality
19 Tuesday Nov 2019
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Part of an art installation meant to be experienced with the aid of augmented reality, painted on the side on a building along Centre Street North.
Friendly greeting
18 Monday Nov 2019
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From some art installed on the fence surrounding St. Joseph Elementary and Junior High school in Calgary.
Family of Man
16 Saturday Nov 2019
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Part of a sculpture known as The Family of Man, outside the former headquarters of the Calgary Board of Education in the city centre.
This is the second home for The Family of Man, with its second name. This piece of art was first called Brotherhood of Mankind, and it was originally part of the British pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal.
Breakfast all day
10 Sunday Nov 2019
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A beautiful, modern painted sign, seen in a city that has precious few of these from any era. Red’s Diner is on 4th Street S.W. in Calgary, in the Beltline on the way to Mission.
Things are not as they seem
07 Thursday Nov 2019
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Van Gogh Observes, a sculpture by the late Canadian artist Joe Fafard, is installed outside an art gallery along 4th Street S.W. in Calgary.
From afar, the shadows in the work struck me as being a little odd, so I walked up to it for a closer look. Imagine my surprise when I figured out what was going on!
