Culture
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Photo du Jour – ArchitectChair
Chair artfully suspended above the Ville-Maire Expressway at rue du Fort. According to the Canadian Centre for Architecture, who created and maintain the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Roadsworth’s Street Art To Help Revitalize Saint-Pierre
Most people don’t venture into Saint-Pierre unless they live there, work there, or are truly lost. The neighbourhood is islated between two railway...
By Alanah Heffez -
Roerich Garden highlights abandoned site’s value in the face of St-Viateur expansion
Sprout Out Loud! gardening collective in the Mile End meadow on November 2nd 2008. Photo by Melissa Campbell. In an abandoned CP Rail lot in the Mile End...
By Alanah Heffez -
Monuments (a poem)
Last Thursday, I took part in a panel discussion about art and community action, along with Emily Rose Michaud, the artist behind the Roerich Garden in...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Tangled Bike Path
Only in Montreal do art projects like this get permanently integrated into the urban landscape ;)
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Griffintown Sculptures
For a few days, I passed by these curious carved heads on my way to work, and then on Monday I had a chance to meet the artist, Tuto. Between my basic...
By Alanah Heffez -
An interview with Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable on their 10th Anniversary
ED: Spacing is pleased to publish this guest post & interview by Montreal writer Alexandra Redgrave. This year marks the tenth anniversary of...
By Spacing -
A Street With a View in Pittsburgh
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDGyRO6w2o[/youtube] As Google Street View spreads from city to city, it’s inevitable that people will try...
By Shawn Micallef -
In absentia maps Mile End stories
in absentia, a web-based art project presented by Dare-Dare, reads as a cross between a map and a novel. When you have lived in a place for long enough...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Plateau Distroboto
The city of Montreal has recently adopted four distrobotos, the indie art distributors made of retired cigarette vending machines. Brain child of local...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montreal – the cutting edge of recorded music since 1900
Park Emile-Berliner (1851-?). Inventeur du gramophone et du disque. How did a tiny corner park in St-Henri end up dedicated to the inventor of the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Putting the POP in Montreal
The 7th Annual POP Montreal festival wrapped up on Sunday, and, as has been the habit over the past few years, the biggest star of the festival ended up...
By Olivier Plessis