Culture
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Article links to kill time on Monday afternoon
illustration of 48 Abell, Queen St. W. I’ve compiled a bunch of links from blogs, today’s papers, and the weekend papers. Also, Robert...
By Matthew Blackett -
Turning video billboards into public art
Ji Lee, creator of the Bubble Project, which allowed passerby to alter and respond to advertising billboards, has gone digital – well, sort of. His...
By Leah Sandals -
Alley Jaunt wants to flaunt
Alley Jaunt is seeking five special projects for its 5th anniversary. Here are the deets: We want to do more than jaunt, we want to FLAUNT our five years...
By Matthew Blackett -
Rustle your bustle for hustle this Sunustle
I WANT RHYTHM returns this weekend for another afternoon of free spiriting it up, this time at Yonge and Gerrard. If you’re unfamiliar with this...
By Leah Sandals -
Calling all Photo/Flickr Bloggers
A call that seems made for you: CALL TO ARTISTS: CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION The Greater Toronto Airports Authority will present The Built Environment...
By Shawn Micallef -
Reports of Nathan Phillips’s death have been greatly exagerated
Again on Saturday, after checking on the Spadina Thimble and meandering back east through the Queen West cardigan sweater district, I saw a commotion in...
By Shawn Micallef -
The Tape
Last week we posted a link to the Globe and Mail story I wrote about the new additions to the Spadina Thimble — but we didn’t have a current...
By Shawn Micallef -
Public Art for Sleepwalkers
Nuit Blanche is well over, but there’s a smaller-scale project launching tonight that similarly takes aim at the late-night public-art-viewing...
By Leah Sandals -
Toronto artstravaganza: t’aint public, but still worth seeing
The Power Plant’s fall show, all about documenting and reinforcing the aura of the fabled Cologne, Germany, art scene of the 1980s, was a bit...
By Leah Sandals -
Holy Public Dancing Interventions, Batman!
Gillian Wearing, what have you wrought? Ever since you decided to spontaneously dance in a shopping mall back in 1994, and record it for a video piece...
By Leah Sandals -
Art Attack Meeting Tonight @ Metro Hall
I know some of you want to piledrive the Henry Moore sculpture in Nathan Phillips Square, but you’re going to have to save that for another day...
By Leah Sandals -
NY Times has ideas
In today’s NY Times magazine they look at 74 ideas that were talked about over the past year. Some are weird — like the comb that listens and...
By Shawn Micallef