By Leah Sandals
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Is Queen Street Dead? & Funeral for a Building tomorrow
Put on your blackest of black art-discourse suits and your thinking cap tomorrow as the Toronto Alternative Art Fair International hosts an afternoon of...
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Bolering alone? Alleyjaunt co-founder says “non”
Lise Beaudry, co-founder of Alleyjaunt (one of our city’s most fun summer arts fests) and an artist in her own right, will be kicking off a unique...
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New Nuit Blanche online archive
The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art has created on online archive devoted exclusively to documenation of Nuit Blanche. I’ve had a quick browse...
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The (lost) art of voting?
This morning a local arts advocacy org, Artsvote.ca, released results of their all-candidates survey on arts and culture issues in Toronto. The good part...
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Filming life in Regent Park
Today sees the kickoff of the 2006 Regent Park Film Festival, which runs to November 12th at Nelson Mandela Park Public School. Some of the films are...
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Bubbalicious for grown-ups
The Guardian Online reported Sunday about a NYC adman-cum-artist whose “bubbalicious” ad critique campaign is giving some of the power of ads...
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Get some perspective – the urban kind
Tonight grab anyone you think is myopic on urban issues and bring them down to the Goethe Institute for the opening of Urban Perspectives, an examination...
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Illegal posters challenge Paris
The Star runs an AP story this morning about an innovative and illegal street art project that is pumping up some controversy in France. It has to do with...
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Bundlin’ up for public artriffic good times
As if Hallowe’en alone didn’t provide enough public visual spectacle for urban dwellers, it’s worth reminding Spacing Wirers that there...
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10 parts of Toronto that need public art
Tut tut! There is not one but two pieces on public art in the weekend papers. The Star runs a long piece from Peter Goddard about a new public art...
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It’s where I’m from frankly, couldn’t pick a better city
Alright, so it’s a bit of a grey coolish day out there, a hard day to get excited about life in the old Toronto the Good. So listen to this, have a...
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Sculpture Idol results in!
In case you were wondering who won the Toronto Sculpture Garden’s own version of the Cooper-Hewitt People’s Choice Awards earlier this month...