The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Former coal-fired powerhouse turned free contemporary art gallery, its smokestack still intact.
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This guide to The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto opens with a gallery president who quit after just eleven weeks in 2012, no explanation given. It traces the building back to 1926, when it was a coal-burning powerhouse serving a lakeside warehouse, through its dark years after the shoreline's industry dried up, to the 1987 opening of a gallery with no permanent collection of its own. That arrangement has always needed money and nerve from Harbourfront Centre, which owns the land and controls the board.
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