Winnie-the-Pooh exhibition at the ROM is smart and playful, but beware the March Break madness

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Winnie-the-Pooh exhibition at the ROM is smart and playful, but beware the March Break madness GlobeArts

Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic is on display in the Royal Ontario Museum's fourth-floor contemporary-culture gallery.One large but largely unspoken tension in the contemporary museum is that between a research institution and a daycare centre. Take, for example, the Winnie-the-Pooh show that opened at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto just in time for March Break. On the one hand, it is a smart exhibition of delicate line drawings revealing how effectively illustrator E.H.

At the ROM, Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic has been installed in the fourth-floor contemporary-culture galleries, one of those tortured spaces that architect Daniel Libeskind bestowed on the ROM with the 2007 Crystal renovation. Here, a twisting installation seems guaranteed to create roadblocks, and while the interactive elements are cute – a bed for storytime, cupboards full of honey, a bridge to run across – expect to elbow others aside to get your turn.

In assembling a selection of the 270 original E.H. Shepard drawings in the collection of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum for an exhibition now touring to the Royal Ontario Museum, curator Julius Bryant offers a particularly deft reading of how the illustrator addressed Milne’s wit. Young children, he points out, can’t grasp irony and sarcasm, so Shepard lent a hand.

 

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GlobeArts Well that's awesome for people with small kids, they can really get good pictures with cute backgrounds. But just remember to take pictures & video landscape , not portrait! This way you can capture more of the scene as well as crop & edit the picture!

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