{"id":1593,"date":"2007-03-05T06:03:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T10:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:41:52","slug":"1593","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/05\/1593\/","title":{"rendered":"East Toronto Greats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/EastTorontoGreats.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eminent Easterners are being featured along Queen Street over the next few months (by current and former <em>Spacing<\/em> contributors, would-be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eminent_Victorians\">Lytton Strachey&#8217;s<\/a>, both of &#8217;em):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>East Toronto Greats<br \/>\nA Collaborative Window Display Project<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>East Toronto Greats is a collaborative project featuring the work of artist and curator <strong>Tim Whalley<\/strong> and writer <strong>Sheila Heti<\/strong>. Consisting of a series of six representations of historical figures from 19th century east Toronto, the works, created by Tim and interpreted by Sheila, will be exhibited in window display galleries at the Drake Hotel, Pages Books Art Window and Toronto Free Gallery during the spring of 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The first installment of the project, featuring greats Alexander Muir (1830 &#8211; 1906) and George Leslie (1804-?) opens on March 2nd at the Drake Hotel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The works incorporate satirical devices and reference traditions of political critique, while the interpretive text plays with what was left about the greats in the historical record. Documents, memoirs and more recent sources considered these figures &#8211; landowners, businessmen and politicians &#8211; important to the development of east Toronto. In exploring the act of mythologizing Toronto&#8217;s past, the little memorials celebrate characters who have rarely been commemorated. East Toronto Greats features such figures as horticulturalist George Leslie, poet and songwriter Alexander Muir, developer and politician Ernest Albert MacDonald, alderman Henry Frankland and landowner William Lea.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Where &#038; When:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Drake Hotel Vestibule, 1150 Queen Street W (March 2 &#8211; April 28, 2007)<br \/>\nPages Art Window, 256 Queen Street W (April 1 &#8211; 22, 2007)<br \/>\nToronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen Street E (April 21 &#8211; May 5, 2007)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminent Easterners are being featured along Queen Street over the next few months (by current and former Spacing contributors, would-be Lytton Strachey&#8217;s, both of &#8217;em): East Toronto Greats A Collaborative Window Display Project East Toronto Greats is a collaborative project featuring the work of artist and curator Tim Whalley and writer Sheila Heti. 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