Chelsea to the left, Vancouver to the right.

A nice passtime on Thursday afternoons is to walk around in Chelsea in New York to watch different art exhibitions. This weekday between 5 and 8 pm, many new exhibitions are opening so the galleries are full and often you get a glass of wine, a drink or some snacks.

You often get to see many different types of oil paintings, photographs and sculptures from a variety of artists on these evenings. And it's the variety that I appreciate. Even if you don't like it all, there is almost always something that touches you.

This Thursday however was the first time I saw something I recognised. It was a group of paintings and sculptures of laughing Asian men that made you smile – signes Yue Minjun. When I was in Vancouver, Canada, about a month ago the city put up a new pi.jpgece of art in a park – sculptures of laughing Asian men. I never got the name of the artist then, but for sure – it must be the same, no?

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To see which exhibitions are opening go to this web site.
This one can be seen at Arario Gallery, 521 W 25th St.
In Vancouver, the sculptures are placed where Denman St meets the beach, English Bay.