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  • Philadelphia’s Autobiographies

    With Art Attack! just a couple of days away, here’s another example (albeit a top-down one) of the reclamation of spaces typically reserved for...

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  • Weather Vanes

    Here is some functional street furniture from the UK.  McChesney Architects designed a series of innovative swivelling wind shelters on Blackpool’s...

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  • HarbourArt

    There is an art opening at Harbourfront tonight — some of the pieces focus on public spaces in various ways, including our [murmur] window, where...

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  • Mobile Landscape Intervention Unit

    The Mobile Landscape Intervention Unit is a recycled shipping container that has been transformed into a live-work space for a team of intrepid gardeners...

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  • Mis-Guided

    Mis-Guide is a book and website created by Wrights & Sites, a group of four UK based artists. Mis-Guide is a guide book that can be used in any city...

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  • Final Month of Transmedia :29:59

    July is the final month of art content curated by Michelle Kasprzak and Michael Alstad on the pedestrian-level billboard in Dundas Square. The end of the...

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  • The dirt on graffiti

    Is it still graffiti if all you’re doing is cleaning away dirt? Street artist Paul Curtis (aka Moose) has been messing with the minds of city...

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  • More Parks, Less Parking

    This is a picture of me, lounging on the sod of the newest park in town. It says, “Streets are for People” just above the windshield. This...

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  • Great street art

    You may remember Mark Jenkins from a previous Spacing Wire post (he’s the dude who put lolipop-like things on top of parking metres). He’s...

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  • Deer Herd coming to Toronto (herd needed)

    As a part of WADE 2006, Montreal artist Hazel Meyer and her project DEERHEADS are coming to Toronto, July 8th & 9th. DEERHEADS is a participatory...

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  • People Walking 2006

    Walking down Bloor on Saturday night after seeing A Prairie Home Companion at the Cumberland (go see this wonderful movie, Meryl Streep can totally sing)...

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  • Set a new BENCHmark

    If you picked up a copy of Spacing‘s Winter 2006 issue (“The New Beautiful City”) you may have seen an article by Anna Bowness on...

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