Culture
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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...
By Michelle Kasprzak -
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 -
Should museums be public spaces?
This Sunday marks the last day for Torontonians to preview empty galleries at the ROM Crystal. And today (Friday) is the only day of the preview (which...
By Leah Sandals -
Seattle’s street furniture is so silly
I’m on the west coast doing some travelling and I can’t help but notice how strange some of these cities are. For example, you may find this...
By Dave Meslin -
Opening of ROM and a pulse on the waterfront
Last night I showed up late to the opening of the ROM crystal — somewhere around 1:30am. I was amazed to see so many people still milling about...
By Matthew Blackett -
Saturday’s headlines
Pulse Front at Harbourfront, by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer • Has the cultural renaissance begun? [ Toronto Star ] • Renaissance ROM, finally realized...
By Matthew Blackett