Nov 16 2021 44 mins 1
By the time Fuller appeared in London he was already a household name throughout Canada. Fuller's iconic dome was the centrepiece of Montreal’s Expo 67 which would go on to be considered the most successful World’s fair of the 20th Century.
But Fuller wasn’t the only one gaining attention, the art scene in London was also having a moment in the late 60’s. Writing in Art in America magazine in 1969, critique Barry Lord called London, Ontario, “one of Canada’s four major art scenes,” saying the city was quote “younger than Montreal, livelier than Toronto, vying with Vancouver in variety and sheer quantity of output... in many ways the most important of the four.”
But Fuller wasn’t the only one gaining attention, the art scene in London was also having a moment in the late 60’s. Writing in Art in America magazine in 1969, critique Barry Lord called London, Ontario, “one of Canada’s four major art scenes,” saying the city was quote “younger than Montreal, livelier than Toronto, vying with Vancouver in variety and sheer quantity of output... in many ways the most important of the four.”
