Culture
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Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel
(Alex Garant, “Midnight”) For the past month, you may have noticed a...
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Remembrance Day: Parsing Toronto’s memorial landscaping
For most of the 20th century, public memorials in Toronto were restricted to the commemoration of fallen soldiers, as well as select figures and events...
By Adrian Phillips -
Public Art Manifesto: Rethinking public art’s possibilities
Works of public art are markers of what a society deems to be important, and the choices we make about what works to erect attest to the shared values and...
By Sarah Ratzlaff -
Janice Reid’s “Real Love” intersects race and space
Earlier this week, Mayor John Tory and mayoral candidates Saron Gebresellassi, Knia Singh and Jennifer Keesmaat debated transit, affordable housing...
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Adam Beck’s monumental “Little Worries”
If you’ve found yourself in downtown Toronto recently, you may have noticed a change to the Adam Beck Memorial, at Queen and University. Constructed in...
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Sparks of Life at Carlton and Jarvis: Examining Equilibrium
With its high-rises and construction sites, Toronto can often feel overbearingly grey. That greyness is now being met with a blast of colour thanks to...
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The need for site-specific works of art
Daniel Young and Christian Giroux’s new public art piece— Three Points Where Two Lines Meet, located at the intersection of Bathurst and Vaughan—has...
By Sarah Ratzlaff -
THE ARTFUL CITY: The Performance of Revolutionary Feasibility at Nuit Blanche
By: Emily Dickson Talking about revolution can feel futile and racy and urgent and faux pas all at once. Monument to the Century of Revolutions...
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EVENT: Making the Toronto Museum vision a reality
WHEN: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 WHERE: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave (UofT St. George campus) TIME: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm (doors open at 6:15 pm) COST: This...
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EVENT: Pride & Place podcast listening party
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 28th, 6pm-8pm WHERE: Harlem Underground, 745 Queen St. West, Toronto LINK: RSVP on Facebook if you wish Within dominant urban...
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What’s next for Old City Hall
Originally published on the Ryerson City Builders Institute Big changes are coming to one of Toronto’s most treasured buildings. The provincial and...
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Revisited ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ at Buddies shines a spotlight on racialized labour
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” is most remembered for the 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in the...
By Cheryl Thompson