WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN MUSEUMS

A big new installation of Asian art at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario is a mess. “Intended as a way of displaying the cultures of South Asia, the Ondaatje Gallery instead delivers 2,500 square feet of incoherence. As a work of design, it is almost bad enough to be in the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. It’s one of those exhibits that somehow manage to detract from the sum of human knowledge; at the end you may feel you know less than you did when you entered.” – National Post (Canada)