Culture
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Cold and cool public art on the island today
Vancouver artist Nicole Dextras, who has been doing a Gibraltar Point residency in public art involving ice, text and textiles, will be having an open...
By Leah Sandals -
Public Space Invaders III: Call for films
Spacing is now accepting submissions for the third installment of our Public Space Invaders film night to be held at the Drake Hotel in late March. We are...
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A non-crosseyed vision for 2011?
Today, Artscape launched a new campaign called Vision 2011: Thinking Big About Culture-led Regeneration aka A Roadmap for Toronto’s Future. Now, we...
By Leah Sandals -
I am the walrus… uh, crossing sign
I only dug up this image as a segue into an announcement about a new public art show opening on Toronto’s streets this week, but, gazing at it a...
By Leah Sandals -
Urban Field Speakers Series: Notions of public time
The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, in association with the Visible City Project, is hosting a series of talks on how art can transform the...
By Shawn Micallef -
I get so emotional baby, every time I think of Lat 51°4N Long114°4W
While I’ve been getting emotional at other places on the Wire lately, I find it’s nice to get a little more geographically diverse in emotion...
By Leah Sandals -
A tax for artists? Gallery director’s public poster campaign says yes.
In today’s Star, Christopher Hume gives column-inches to Kyle Rae’s push for investment in “the arts.” Interestingly, in...
By Leah Sandals -
Freezing my public art off
OK, I’ll admit it; after writing a piece on art relating to climate change earlier this month, and still believing that climate change is happening...
By Leah Sandals -
Public art gettin’ busy on your t-rash
Most of the manhole cover lovers (er, methinks we need a new word for “manhole”) out there are well aware of this already, but last night at...
By Leah Sandals -
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...
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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...
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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