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  • Malta Markings

    There’s some neat graffiti here in Malta — but it’s the old fashion kind, with little messages left here and there about love and often...

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  • Subverting graffiti

    Christopher Hutsul has an interesting piece in the Toronto Star today about a Sony graffiti promotion in NYC and San Francisco: Graffiti purists are...

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  • The Art of Psychogeography

    The Ideas section of today’s Toronto Star has a feature on psychogeography. The article notes a growing interest in psychogeography among artists...

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  • TONIGHT: Graffiti Art Show

    THEM, a graffiti art organization which works to find employment for young urban artists, is hosting an art show tonight at It’s Not A Deli (986...

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  • Scottish Stickum

    I’ve been wandering around Edinburgh for the last seven days. It’s a tangle of old streets, volcanic rock, super green grass, bone-chilling...

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  • Gentrify this!

    Gentrification is a hot topic in all cities, and the neighbourhoods surrounding Toronto’s downtown core are no exception. Much of the West Queen...

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  • Utilitarian canvases

    The Spacing Wire posted back on October 7th, 2005 about the work Joe Pantalone’s office is doing with local graffiti artists and Bell utility boxes...

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  • Montreal’s big tent

    Spacing contributor Leah Sandals has a piece in our upcoming issue about politics in public art. One of the artist groups she focuses on is Action...

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  • Pillow Fight!

    If you missed the wonderful public space intervention Pillow Fight last week at Dundas Square — staged by newmindspace — you should check the...

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  • Abandoned Art

    The Montreal Gazette reports on Champ Libre’s art festival in abandoned urban spaces. Champ Libre holds an international festival of video and...

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  • REMINDER: Spacing presents City Repair tonight at U of T

    The Repair Club comes to Toronto TONIGHT! • 7pm, free Innis College Town Hall (off St. George, just north of Harbord on U of T campus) Come take part...

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  • Urban Pillow Fight

    Feathers fly and teddies soar as you converge on Dundas Square for a massive urban pillow fight! Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding foe. This...

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