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rfmcdonaldMartin Knelman's Toronto Star article has much of interest: Frank Gehry, the exhibition of his works, the possibility he might come back to his native Toronto.
Frank Gehry, who turns 87 on Feb. 28 and is widely regarded as the greatest living architect in the world, was born in Toronto. But if you didn’t happen to visit the retrospective in the Pompidou Centre in Paris that ended last year, and you can’t get to the spectacular museum exhibition of his career highlights currently wowing visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until March 20, then you will miss it.
That’s especially ironic because, as Gehry told me the other day, lately he has been contemplating the idea of moving back to Toronto, which he left as a teenager in 1947 when his family moved to L.A.
That’s a stunning idea, especially since the LACMA show — which opens with a blow-up of Gehry’s handwritten love letter to his adopted city — has become an occasion for Gehry and L.A. to embrace one another.
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The letter is touching and heartfelt, but for me there’s a subtext with a frustrating question. Isn’t it about time for our city to embrace Gehry and claim him as ours?
I’d say the answer is a resounding yes, but in that case, why isn’t this exhibit coming to Toronto?
