Toronto’s Fly-In Art – Where Are The Canadians?

The expansion of Toronto’s airport has generated some major new public art by some of the biggest names in contemporary sculpture. But. “Costing approximately $30-million, less than 1 per cent of the total budget, it will no doubt still be perceived as wild extravagance in a country where the idea of tourism promotion through the arts is still a weakly flickering light bulb. But the controversy should not be about the money; it should be about the heavy emphasis on non-Canadian artists.”