Culture
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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 -
Ireland Park: solemn, hidden and engaging
Only two weeks after HtO Park opened to the public, another public space opened with a very different purpose and spirit than the urban beach. Ireland...
By Sean Marshall -
The potential of a wall: 3D murals
I’m not sure where these murals are located, but I like them a lot. UPDATE: A commenter discovered that the murals are from Chinco and Los Gatos...
By Matthew Blackett -
Guerrilla photography
When Dufferin hits Queen the road ends briefly. On the north side of the three-way intersection is a retaining wall holding earth in place that supports...
By Matthew Blackett