Culture
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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