When the ROM design emerged some thought it was bold and brilliant, while others said it was just him imposing his aesthetic on a historic structure. The original design has a lot more glass and a lot less metal, but few changed their opinions when the thing opened, and that’s fine; if art isn’t a bit controversial, if people aren’t talking about it, what’s the point?
We don’t begrudge artistes the right to explore the same themes over and over again—for John Irving to write about bears and people losing limbs, for Steven Spielberg to make movies about kids and/or aliens, for Snoop Dogg to rap about bein’ a pimp who likes the pot. We’d even expect Frank Gehry to go wild with big, swooping piles of titanium, except that most people agree the reason the AGO works is because he didn’t…
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