An afternoon on Toronto’s Center Island.
In his review of “Fringe Benefits: Cosmopolitan Dynamics of a Multicultural City,” currently showing at Toronto’s Design Exchange, Dylan Reid tempts readers to expand the geographical barriers of what they perceive to be Toronto’s cultural core. In the second edition of this post, he elaborates on the exhibit’s theme of “informal urbanism,” looking at how suburban communities transform their space to accommodate their needs.
This Ain’t the St. Lawrence Market
Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler takes a look at the history of the Queen Street market- an inconspicuous building on Queen Street West. Originally intended to be a destination market that would draw shoppers from all over town, this building ended up an agglomeration of fast-food stands serving people on their lunch break.
Leah Sandals questions the motives behind the AGO’s passive aggressive advertising poster, in which shoppers are encouraged to visit a list of AGO competitors while the museum is closed for renovation. Is it meant to be a backhanded compliment or a self-congratulatory gesture? Sandals ends her post with the thought that the poster in question may be symbolic of how catty and uncooperative relationships can be between Toronto museums and institutions.