Culture
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Alley Jaunt this weekend
The Alley Jaunt — the annual exhibition of local artists showing their works in the garages of the alleys around Trinity-Bellwoods park — is...
By Dylan Reid -
Walking art, walking life: projects and resources
As mentioned in an earlier post, I am helping to put together “Walking Life,” an exhibition of art about walking, which will accompany the...
By Dylan Reid -
Soft City looking for plush volunteers
If you attended the Toronto the Good party last year at Fort York you likely saw the Soft City exhibit on the second floor of one of the white block...
By Shawn Micallef -
Montreal: FRAG on the Main
Walking up St. Laurent Boulevard (colloquially known to Montrealers as the Main) earlier in the month (I was in town partly to satisfy my appetite for...
By Sean Marshall -
Zagreb — tags, bins, posters & pink pigs oh my
I recently spent a few days in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It was the first time I’ve visited an Eastern European post-socialist city and it was...
By Shawn Micallef -
“Honest” Ed: Retailer, Placemaker, Dadaist?
Okay, so there’s been immense coverage this past week about Ed Mirvish and his varied impacts on our city. But what are his impacts in the public...
By Leah Sandals -
Terminal Zero One
Terminal Zero One – Digital Art Exhibition at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport Terminal 1 — Level 3 Terrace, Departures Level...
By Michelle Kasprzak -
R.I.P. Psychedelic Tree Stump
For nearly 10 years, Trinity-Bellwoods Park has been home to a psychedelic tree and wolf (officially known as the Universal Love Machine). Sometime...
By Matthew Blackett -
Art Competition: Design of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne
Artistic Competition of the KVB Kà¶lner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG Design of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sà¼d Stadtbahn Kà¶ln) Call for...
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Adding art to our street furniture
Ecomedia, the new company that bought out EUCAN and took control of Toronto’s silver box waste bins, introduced an interesting program today that is...
By Matthew Blackett -
Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?
Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing — and making streets safer for pedestrians — from the land downunda. It...
By Leah Sandals -
Should museums be public spaces, the sequel.
Following plenty of blog chatter last week around the demise of “Five Dollar Fridays†at the ROM (and accompanied by traumatic flashbacks about the...
By Leah Sandals