Culture

Alchemy at the Gardiner Museum

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A new piece of public art has been added to Toronto’s public art landscape, one that seeks to comfort, cajole, and seduce. This new... Read More

Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel

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                                                                        (Alex Garant, “Midnight”) By Sarah Ratzlaff For... Read More

Remembrance Day: Parsing Toronto’s memorial landscaping

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For most of the 20th century, public memorials in Toronto were restricted to the commemoration of fallen soldiers, as well as select... Read More

Public Art Manifesto: Rethinking public art’s possibilities

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Works of public art are markers of what a society deems to be important, and the choices we make about what works to erect attest to... Read More

Janice Reid’s “Real Love” intersects race and space

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Earlier this week, Mayor John Tory and mayoral candidates Saron Gebresellassi, Knia Singh and Jennifer Keesmaat debated transit... Read More

Adam Beck’s monumental “Little Worries”

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If you’ve found yourself in downtown Toronto recently, you may have noticed a change to the Adam Beck Memorial, at Queen and... Read More

Sparks of Life at Carlton and Jarvis: Examining Equilibrium

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With its high-rises and construction sites, Toronto can often feel overbearingly grey. That greyness is now being met with a blast of... Read More