I'm with Joey Tanenbaum. Sure, his ego is involved, but why shouldn’t it be? If I'd given nearly $100 million to an art gallery, my ego would be involved, too.
Now, what we need - need, need, need - is for Tanenbaum to build his own gallery, where nobody will ever say anything to him except ‘At once, Mr. Tanenbaum,’ on the south side of Queen’s Quay E. between Yonge and the Queen’s Quay Loblaws. Ideally, it would occupy the scungy parking lot at the foot of Yonge, obliterating the regrettable Captain John and giving the waterfront its second interesting building after the police marine unit.
(The police, to give credit where credit is due, have started to commission some quite interesting buildings. The marine unit is one; the new building for 51 Division is another. I’m looking forward to their new traffic services building, off Strachan, but there aren’t details on their site yet.)