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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...
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Holy Public Dancing Interventions, Batman!
Gillian Wearing, what have you wrought? Ever since you decided to spontaneously dance in a shopping mall back in 1994, and record it for a video piece...
By Leah Sandals -
BARBER: Serious Land Dispute on Islands Brewing
John Barber’s column (registered users or Google News search) in The Globe & Mail today discusses the increasing volume of a voice that has been...
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More high-occupancy lanes coming to highways
The Toronto Star is reporting today that the Ontario government will announce major plans to expand the high-occupancy vehicle lanes. In early 2007, the...
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Art Attack Meeting Tonight @ Metro Hall
I know some of you want to piledrive the Henry Moore sculpture in Nathan Phillips Square, but you’re going to have to save that for another day...
By Leah Sandals -
Regent Park Take I
The folks at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media...
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Regent Park Revitalization Screening Thursday Night
Revitalization is a word that sure sounds good; but is the phenomenon the city’s calling “revitalization” over at Regent Park really a...
By Leah Sandals -
Chainlink Beautiful?
The new “Bennet Gates” at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk on the University of Toronto campus recently won a “Clean and...
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Thimble art starts to measure up
Spacing‘s very own Shawn Micallef had a piece about the thimble public art piece found at the northeast corner of Richmond and Spadina in the...
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Monday’s links to weekend articles
This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds on the internet...
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“We’re all pedestrians” campaign wins award
While we at Spacing have serious beefs with outdoor advertising, we do have a sense of humour and can appreciate creativity when we see it. So kudos to...
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NY Times has ideas
In today’s NY Times magazine they look at 74 ideas that were talked about over the past year. Some are weird — like the comb that listens and...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered