Museum Staff: Glynis Logue

Glynis Logue: It's tempting to consider the sunflowers either an ad hoc horticultural nod to the booming suburb's agrarian past, or a decorative seasonal choice on the part of museum staff, soaking up the remaining warms rays of sun as fall drifts towards winter. It's neither. Like everything else here in the museum's 25-acre back lot, it's art, courtesy Glynis Logue, the likes of which the Markham museum has rarely seen, according to The Star. Landslide , an exhibition of 31 artists or collectives, all of them living, most of them young, took over, repurposing heritage buildings and inculcating the museum's display spaces and An irregular row of sunflowers snakes through the grassy back acres of the Markham Museum, which is populated by re-located buildings rescued from various former farmlands long-since repurposed into strip malls and subdivisions. At the end of last month, the museum, given, as many regional museums are, mostly to folksy exhibitions of local lore and occasionally perplexing objects from their archive on a recent visit, the shelves displayed a pair of golf shoes and a yard stick changed completely. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.