Editor's Note October 2008

Editor's Note

Toronto!

As our long-time readers and subscribers know International Art Treasures Web Magazine is based in Toronto. In fact we have a sister publication set solely in our home city The Toronto Tribune.

Toronto is changing thanks to the renovations at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Last year the ROM unveiled the Daniel Libeskind designed "Crystal".

Aerial view of Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, July 2007 at the Royal Ontario Museum
Title: Aerial view of Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, July 2007,
Image Courtesy: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto © 2007. All rights reserved.

Now that they have the extra space both need to bring in additional visitors to justify the cost and the effort. The ROM took off running with some fantastic exhibitions last year like Canada Collects and this year with Darwin and now Diamonds.

Diamonds in the Rough necklace by Frank Gehry for Tiffany & Co.from the Nature of Diamonds at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum
Title: Diamonds in the Rough necklace,
Artist: Frank Gehry for Tiffany & Co, 2006
Medium: Rough diamonds, cultured keshi pearls, gold mesh
The folding, bending and twisting forms of Frank Gehry’s
striking architecture are also reflected in his approach to
jewelry design. For this necklace, Gehry sprinkled rough
diamonds and cultured keshi pearls on gauzy gold mesh,
attaching the gems where they landed.
© Tiffany & Co.
Image Courtesy: Royal Ontario Museum

Next month, the AGO will unveil the Frank Gehry changes, significantly it will be the internationally famous architect's first completed building in his native Canada. A necklace Gehry designed for Tiffany & Co., is part of the ROM's Diamonds exhibition.

Peter Paul Ruben's The Massacre of the Innocents, about 1609-11 Art Gallery of Ontario
Title: The Massacre of the Innocents, about 1609-11
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish 1577-1640)
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: 142 x 182 cm
The Thomson Collection
Permanent Collection and © 2008 : Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Image Courtesy: Art Gallery of Ontario

At first the AGO will display it's permanent collection and showcase the incredible Thomson Collection. Dr Katharine Lochnan, the AGO’s Deputy Director of Research and The R Fraser Elliot Curator of Prints and Drawings organized an exhibition that will open later this month in Manchester, England Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision, next year it will come to Toronto.

Toronto's art scene and galleries always impressed us; one of the reasons we created International Art Treasures Web Magazine.

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