After years of halted attempts to find a permanent home, the Portrait Gallery of Canada is a gallery no more, shuffled Wednesday into the programs branch of Canada's national archives.
The move is part of a larger shakeup at Library and Archives Canada, the portrait gallery's parent institution, which will see the gallery lose its name – as well as the person who has shaped it for the past eight years.
Director general Lilly Koltun has been let go and, in an e-mail obtained by The Globe and Mail, she told her staff she is leaving because of a modernization process launched by the new Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Daniel J. Caron.
You can read more in an article by James Bradshaw in the Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-portrait-gallery-is-no-more/article1281388/.
