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  • Front yard art

    Spacing’s very own Leah Sandals was asked to curate Toronto’s front yard art scene by the Toronto Star — the piece ended up being a...

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  • Alley Jaunt and the evolving fence

    Alley Jaunt will take over the laneways in the Little Italy neighbourhood this coming weekend (August 12-13). I am a sucker for laneways and find this...

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  • Get tangled this Sunday

    This Sunday, the Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry is coordinating a conversation on entangled territories in the city. Not only will it address...

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  • Nature in the Garage

    Nature in the Garage, an exhibition carried out by Gallery 1313, in association with liveARTs, and in partnership with the City of Toronto, runs from June...

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  • Infrastucture art

    I was forwarded an interesting art exhibit called Safe Design sponsored by Safety Issues magazine that took place at the MoMA in New York last fall. A few...

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  • Vacant Lots: Just Add Water

    Spacing’s public art editor Leah Sandals has been a participant in the Vacant Lots exhibition that is running out of the Toronto Free Gallery...

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  • Chalk mapping Queen West

    From the fellow who brought us the cute little zine of the Bloor Viaduct during the Apocolypse! Paul Dotey maps the Queen West neighbourhood tonight at...

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  • Art Attacked!

    Check out the photos of Art Attack by Jerrold from Blog TO.

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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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