The Naked Emperor In The Room
Wow, it sure is ugly. What a mess.
It’s more than a little appalling that there’s artistic types all over the city patting each other on the ass and telling themselves the ROMperor’s new clothes are
haute cuisine.
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October 4th, 2007 at 11:24 am
This picture of just the ‘Crystal’ doesn’t do justice to how ugly the whole mess really is. I’m flabbergasted and appalled at what they did to the Museum. From the outside (ain’t bin inside), it’s even uglier than the quasi-Fascist, 60s-high-school-design hunka architectural junk from the 80s that it replaced.
It looks like it used to be part of the better looking building but there was an earthquake.
It doesn’t merge or emerge; it’s jarring and abrupt. It has no lyricism, no Classicism, no Futurism. It looks like Libeskind dreamed about a crumpled napkin - one of those starchy, tough paper napkins you get at really bad fast-food places - and thought, “There’s a commission waiting to happen”, or worse, when he saw us coming, “Rubes.”
It looks like it’s covered in 1960s suburban siding - from a con man.
It offers no promise, not even a hint, of what might be inside; it just says “Look at me, I’m Daniel Libeskind!’ when it should be alluring and tempting people in to the halls and galleries full of ideas, inspiration, enlightenment, history, thirty different definitions of art and science…
There’s a photo, maybe an artist’s conception, of what looks like an aerial shot, late evening, I think, with the city lights coming on, all atmospherically purple. Well, consider artist’s conceptions along with Communism, Christianity, and post-secondary education: they look good on paper but how often do any of those work out well in real life?
It’s just a stunt, like that ridiculous addition to OCAD.
‘Course, the smart-and-fancies hated the Eiffel Tower when it was built for the World Exposition of 1889. Now it’s a beloved landmark.
So give me a hundred years or so and see what I think then.
October 5th, 2007 at 9:33 am
It doesn’t matter that I’ll get used to it, and that both this and the OCAD monstrosity will become signatures that tourists and visitors will want to see, for their oddness, uniquity, and novelty: they’re ugly now.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
They should turn it into a maximum security asylum.
The inmates are already in charge.
And I guess that’s just about all I’m going to be saying about that.
October 7th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
I kinda like it
October 9th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I’d delete Reid’s comment but he’s an admin.