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  • Secret swing back in action!

    The secret swing is back action. The swing, found between two converging buildings just off of the graffiti alley behind Queen West stores, had its seat...

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  • New Press Pause show

    There is a great graffiti art show that is currently underway, curated by the Press Pause collective, that features the work of Elicser, the artist whose...

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  • PARK(ing)

    The San Francisco based group Rebar created their own roadwitching by renting a parking space for a temporary park. 70% of public land is devoted to the...

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  • Roadwitches

    The BBC reports on a campain in Britain to lower speed limits to 20mph in urban areas which highlights some DIY traffic-calming happenings that are...

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  • The city revisits the expressway

    Like so many roadways of the 1950s and ’60s, Seattle’s I-5 freeway cut through the city and destroyed pedestrian connections between...

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  • The Art of Psychogeography

    The Ideas section of today’s Toronto Star has a feature on psychogeography. The article notes a growing interest in psychogeography among artists...

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  • Bus Shelters of Mellieha

    Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in Europe during December and is posting sporadically throughout the month. — The Editors I arrived in...

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  • Utilitarian canvases

    The Spacing Wire posted back on October 7th, 2005 about the work Joe Pantalone’s office is doing with local graffiti artists and Bell utility boxes...

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  • Subway station revitalization unveiled

    Today, the Toronto Community Foundation unveiled its proposal to redesign three subway stations along the University Avenue subway line. Their main goal...

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  • Secret Swing goes missing!

    The blog Ryantowne is reporting that the Secret Swing, found between two buildings off of Graffiti Alley, has sustained serious damage. The chains have...

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  • New York trash for sale

    Artist Justin Gignac collects trash from the streets of New York City and carefully packages the litter into a plastic cube. He sells each unique...

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  • A moving canvas

    SpacingWire reader Paul Bowser pointed us towards an art project called Moving Canvas from Berlin that excites and scares the hell out of me — a...

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