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周安松's avatar

I will definitely make sure I get to see this show at the McMichael. It sounds like a fantastic opportunity to see some rarer and under appreciated work. I'm relatively new to Toronto and this appears to be a great introduction to some local history. This curator however is extremely off putting. She's terribly glib and her snide little bon mots about what she seems to be clearly fighting against are unwelcome. To my ear she has contempt for the ideas that the McMichael fought to enshrine and perhaps even for the G7 themselves. Just let the phrase "Mighty Whitey" in reference to the founder sink in for a while. There is substantive mission creep setting in here and it motivates me to go see the place before ideologues like this wreak further havoc.

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Roy Brander's avatar

I will be among the least of Paul's fans on his art-museum coverage, I'm not much for it.

BUT - "Uninvited" was at the Vancouver Museum last summer, and we caught it with some Spanish/French relatives who live minutes from the Prado, have been to the Louvre more than they could count - and *they* were impressed, much less myself. There are indeed a lot of people not famous, who deserve to be.

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