The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

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.