The Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum

Sean Stanwick

doi:10.1002/ad.501

Abstract

Abstract Sean Stanwick, the co‐author of Design City Toronto, describes Daniel Libeskind's crystalline centrepiece for Toronto, which has become a catalyst for the city's cultural and architectural renaissance. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Preprint Article
10.32920/ryerson.14648277.v1

Photographic Exhibition in the Anti-Cube Gallery : a Case Study of Daniel Libeskind’s Roloff Beny Gallery

Jan 09, 2023
Laura E Hayward

This paper examines the installation of photography exhibitions within the unconventional gallery spaces that have been produced as a part of the relatively recent wave of “iconic” museum architecture. As a medium that has primarily been displayed within the modernist “white cube,” photography presents issues adapting to this new type of gallery interior. This thesis takes, as its case study, the Roloff Beny Gallery, managed by the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) as located in Daniel Libeskind’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal – a controversial addition to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, Ontario. It examines how photographic exhibitions have addressed design and installation issues in this iconic space through three photographic exhibitions