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NUIT BLANCHE
 • From tower to toilet, another bonne Nuit [ Toronto Star ]
• Art at night: Images from Nuit Blanche events around the globe [ Globe & Mail ]
• Nuit Blanche escapes storm’s wrath [ CBC News]

INFRASTRUCTURE
• Bumpy road for bike station [ Toronto Star ]
• Sign, Sign Everywhere A Sign [ National Post ]
• Cabbagetown cultivates lanes [ National Post ]
• It’s wheely cool [ Toronto Sun ]

ARCHITECTURE
• Monuments to optimism [ Toronto Star ]
• CONDO CRITIC: New projects pay little respect to past [ Toronto Star ]
•  Restoration dramas [ Globe & Mail ]
• ‘City within a building’ heralds future [ Toronto Star ]

OTHER NEWS
• High time for change in Mississauga [ Toronto Star ]
• York firm dumps trash bound for green plan [ Toronto Star ]
• What it means for Toronto’s Pan Am Games bid [ Globe & Mail ]
• Facing the new roaming charge [ Globe & Mail ]
• Councillor fights bistro liquor licence [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto’s $2.8-billion Doomsday Clock is ticking [ Globe & Mail ]
• 5 hours, 184 tickets [ Toronto Sun ]
• $33.2M in the bag [ Toronto Sun ]

4 comments

  1. Must disagree with The Star. Nuit Blanche was the weakest year yet. Liberty Village needed more things to see, to be sure, but the setting was a better one. Zone A/B was filled with drunken clubland patrons after closing hours. Lineups for the major exhibits were ridiculous. Massey Hall reached a 2 hour wait.

    TTC street car service was non-existent once again this year: and this was even during regular hours. I wanted to take the TTC but after a long wait I found the best way to get around was by car.

    I can understand the need for Security Guards but was it necessary to have so many at every exhibit? At a couple performance pieces, some guards seemed to feel like they needed to become part of the art. They were literally standing in amongst the performers.

    I thought City Hall was brilliant. They should leave the 4 letter words up all the time. I also thought the Nuit volunteer organization was superb -friendly and consistently helpful. It was also nice to see more businesses open late and more food available.

  2. The bike station is the usual Toronto joke: much better happening south of the border much less overseas. Showers anyone?

  3. I agree with your assessment. I also found that too many artists were concerned with the performance aspects of their pieces and not enough with visual presentation and scale. Though huge crowds and lineups were a factor to this in some degree, I felt many of these pieces failed to surpass my expectations and turn into something sublime. I usually like the works of Rebecca Belmore, Dempsey & Millan and Fastwà¼rms, but I found all their entries rather underwhelming!