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Start by reading Marc Mayer's disingenuous defense of the closure of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography: This is a chance to end the segregation of our photography in the Globe and Mail (Jeff Wall's career has suffered horribly from this very segregation) and perhaps wonder why a director of a Canadian Institution advocates the closure of another cultural space.

Read some of the responses including this choice comment by the photographer Rafael Goldchain:

Mr. Mayer has been building an impressive career over the years and in my personal experience seems to care little for things that he does not perceive as directly beneficial to him. To absorb CMCP into the NGC would implement administrative streamlining making budgets available for the programming he is truly interested in. It comes down to art-ideological differences. The NGC collects photography internationally and seeks to find its place within the international scene. CMCP collects and nurtures a wide range of Canadian photographic modalities and genres much of which would never reach the stratosphere of the international art scene and would not be purchased or shown by the NGC. However, this work as deep and lasting value for Canadian nation and culture building. It speaks to us of ourselves and our specificity as Canadians. We are interested in this work. The rest of the world and its art scene may not be, and why should we care? We need our photographic museum, with a mandate to collect, show, publish and nurture Canadian photography that speaks to Canadians! Mr. Mayer, you are back in Canada after your stint in Brooklyn. The international art scene is a very small part of what we should think of culture and cultural expression, your mandate is to build a Canadian national institution, not mainly your own career.

Then go read the articles and links on Save the CMCP assembled by our friend Andrew Wright and Adrian Gollner

For the record I have not visited the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, so to have an opinion on this issue, according to Mayer, is unconscionable. By that calculation I should also support the closure of the building that houses the National Gallery of Canada since I don't get up to Ottawa much. (Sally and I would be delighted to convert the NGC collection to on-line animated GIFs - for a price).

From my installation for Persona Volare EXPO