Portrait Of A Troubled Art Collection

“As the McMichael Canadian Art Collection prepares to host its second annual ‘100-per-cent Canadian’ fundraiser tonight at Toronto’s art-moderne masterpiece the Carlu, the art gallery is poised to undergo big changes in the months ahead.” But change is nothing new to the McMichael, which throughout its history has endured seemingly constant and “tumultuous disputes over the gallery’s governance and mission. Everyone, it seems, has gotten in on the debates at one time or another — the McMichaels first and foremost, governments, scholars, artists, art critics, auditors, lawyers, opposition politicians, and the courts.”