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The house Safdie would build. Art critic Christopher Hume has reservations about Moshe Safdie's design for Toronto's proposed Ballet Opera House. Hume(...)
The house Safdie would build. Art critic Christopher Hume has reservations about Moshe Safdie's design for Toronto's proposed Ballet Opera House. Hume(...)

The house Safdie would build. Art critic Christopher Hume has reservations about Moshe Safdie's design for Toronto's proposed Ballet Opera House. Hume(...)

Date7/11/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: The house Safdie would build. Art critic Christopher Hume has reservations about Moshe Safdie's design for Toronto's proposed Ballet Opera House. Hume sees too many similarities to the National Gallery; Safdie's masterpiece in Ottawa.
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Well-designed toast: Left to right, architects Barton Myers, James Stirling and Moshe Safdie, finalists in the competition to design and build Metro's proposed $150 million opera-ballet house
Well-designed toast: Left to right, architects Barton Myers, James Stirling and Moshe Safdie, finalists in the competition to design and build Metro's proposed $150 million opera-ballet house
1/21/1988
The airy, glass house design of the National Gallery owes its look to Moshe Safdie
The airy, glass house design of the National Gallery owes its look to Moshe Safdie
4/30/1989
Moshe Safdie, left, and Carlos Ott have experience with government funding and interferance
Moshe Safdie, left, and Carlos Ott have experience with government funding and interferance
6/11/1990
Christopher Hume: The Star's art and architecture critic: says that to see what the future holds: look at what's called low brow today
Christopher Hume: The Star's art and architecture critic: says that to see what the future holds: look at what's called low brow today
5/11/1992
Tribute, Jack Pollock, in 1989 painting called Jack, by Telford Fenton, was proud of living up to his sobriquet A Gentleman Of Excess, art critic Christopher Hume says
Tribute, Jack Pollock, in 1989 painting called Jack, by Telford Fenton, was proud of living up to his sobriquet A Gentleman Of Excess, art critic Christopher Hume says
1/31/1980
Emmett Cardinal Carter: Archbishop of Toronto has 'serious reservations' about bishops' report
Emmett Cardinal Carter: Archbishop of Toronto has 'serious reservations' about bishops' report
12/31/1982
Bishop Lewis Garnsworthy has voted in favor of the principle of ordaining women but he has reservations about actually having any in his Diocese of To(...)
Bishop Lewis Garnsworthy has voted in favor of the principle of ordaining women but he has reservations about actually having any in his Diocese of To(...)
9/1/1976
Robert Bowers' muse: Artist's rugged sculptures at Grunwald Gallery show a higher level of craftsmanship in his second show in less than a year, critic Christopher Hume says
Robert Bowers' muse: Artist's rugged sculptures at Grunwald Gallery show a higher level of craftsmanship in his second show in less than a year, critic Christopher Hume says
3/8/1984
Winning more fans: Rajka Kupesic's figure paintings are located in a universe in which everyone exists in a state of perfect harmony and contentement, critic Christopher Hume reports
Winning more fans: Rajka Kupesic's figure paintings are located in a universe in which everyone exists in a state of perfect harmony and contentement, critic Christopher Hume reports
4/20/1988
Urban wildlife: Critic Chris Hume says that even in the March gloom, Toronto's wall posters are like colorful plants that spring up overnight on our cold city streets
Urban wildlife: Critic Chris Hume says that even in the March gloom, Toronto's wall posters are like colorful plants that spring up overnight on our cold city streets
15 March 1992
John Brown's bodies: Gallery owner Carmen Lamanna stands in front of Brown's Fully Scaled Portrait (public Prosecutor's Speech), on exhibit through April 4, Critic Hume says Brown has returned to one of his favorite symbols for man's desperation, wrestling figures
John Brown's bodies: Gallery owner Carmen Lamanna stands in front of Brown's Fully Scaled Portrait (public Prosecutor's Speech), on exhibit through April 4, Critic Hume says Brown has returned to one of his favorite symbols for man's desperation, wrestling figures
3/26/1985
Art critic Hume
Art critic Hume
8/19/1991