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Posts Filed Under: art

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Off The Wall: Tapr

In our ongoing series of profiles of graffiti writers, we speak with one who embraces the most controversial elements of street art. Tagging for tagging's sake.

By Edward Brown

Tapr's tag, in green.
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Off the Wall: Joel Richardson’s Graffiti 2.0

Toronto's open source street artist

By Edward Brown

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Vandalist: Art Missing

Street artists, this wall needs your help.

By Stephanie Avery

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Off the Wall: Sohoe

The best graffiti you'll never see

By Edward Brown

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“Playful Interventions” Put the Political Back in Public Space

Toronto street artist Sean Martindale on how we interact with the city around us.

By Bronwyn Kienapple

Image courtesy of Sean Martindale.
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Spotted: Jed Lind’s Gold, Silver & Lead

The installation of this auto-focused piece marked the Toronto Sculpture Garden's 30th anniversary.

By Meg Campbell

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This Art Is Occupied—Graffiti for the Revolution

Some neighbours in Toronto didn't appreciate street artist Joel Richardson's work with images of finance and capitalism. But an art exhibit for Occupy Wall Street sure did.

By Carly Maga

Joel Richardson's work in No Comment in New York City. Photo by Shameel Arafin.
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Historicist: On the Waterfront

The evolving, modernizing waterfront through the lens of Toronto Harbour Commission photographer Arthur Beales

By Kevin Plummer

Arthur Beales with photography equipment set up near Ship Channel, looking northwest to city skyline, October 2, 1914, by Beales' assistant. Toronto Port Authority Archives, PC 1/1/135.

Edward Chee’s Pocketful of “Plein-Air”

Artist uses the mobility of the Nintendo DS to create works of fine art

By Jaime Woo

The new exhibition "Plein-Air In My Pocket" at the Gladstone Hotel features works by artists Edward Chee done on the Nintendo DS.

Another Nuit, Another Dawn

After catching up on missed sleep, Torontoist contributors awoke on Sunday afternoon to find that the city's annual all-night free contemporary art event had reached a Nuit era.

By Torontoist Staff

Hard at work at Portabello Burgers' truck stop in the Distillery District. At 8:35 p.m., the lineup was easily 100 feet long. Photo by Corbin Smith.
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Sneak Peeks of Nuit Blanche 2011: Honey I’m Home!

We relived our beloved sitcoms of the '90s and realized exactly why they're now off the air.

By Carly Maga

Director Nicole Bazuin and Torontoist staffer Carly Maga on set at Honey I'm Home. Photo by Cheryl Hsu.

Sneak Peeks of Nuit Blanche 2011: The CFC Media Lab

The Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab offers five interactive new media installations in Technological Displacement for tonight's Nuit Blanche at the Bata Shoe Museum.

By Carly Maga

Alone Together is projected onto the Bata Shoe Museum. Photo by Trevor Haldenby.
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Your Guide to Nuit Blanche 2011

The annual free all-night contemporary art event is back this Saturday, love it or hate it. Here's how to make the most of the white night.

By Carly Maga

Adventurous artgoers take over Yonge Street at Nuit Blanche 2010, 9:06 p.m. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist.
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Urban Planner: September 30, 2011

In this Friday Urban Planner: Harbourfront Centre holds one reception for nine exhibit openings, Surface/Underground Theatre updates and remounts the 34-year-old Jones Boy; four different release concerts, including the Elwins' first single release from their upcoming debut LP, and 10 female comics from 35 years at Second City Toronto play a benefit for The Redwood shelter.

By Steve Fisher

The B-B-B-Bicycles are B-B-B-back! They'll on the bill for The Elwins' single release show at the El Mo tonight. Photo by Teresa Olsen.

Urban Planner: September 16, 2011

In today's Urban Planner: This Place in Time gets some space & time at the Show & Tell Gallery; paramedic-storyteller Morgan Jones and singer-songwriter Corin Raymond show & tell at the Cameron House; the Bruce Trail sing & tell at Halo Halo Village; performers show & tease at the Crapshoot Family Reunion cabaret; and Damian of Fucked Up spins & celebrates at Songs: a Dance Party X.

By Steve Fisher • Photo by Corbin Smith

Members of Bruce Peninsula, seen here from our NXNE 2011 coverage, will play solo and collaborative songs as Bruce Trails at Halo Halo Village tonight.
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We Live Here: The Elephant House

It began as an art project, but a life-sized Indian elephant sculpture is now trumpeting the eclectic spirit of its adoptive neighbourhood.

By Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith

The majestic mammoth of 77 Yarmouth Road.

Art Spin Gallery Tour Becomes Cycling Success

Art Spin, a summer-long series of bike-friendly gallery crawls, has grown into an event large enough to rival Critical Mass. We joined them on their last tour of 2011.

By Steve Kupferman • Photos by D.A. Cooper

Michael Louis Johnson warms up the crowd.
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All-Night Contemporary Art Things at Nuit Blanche 2011

By Carly Maga

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An Invasion of Neon Bikes, Care Of the Good Bike Project

Those multi-coloured bikes that have been popping up at locations across the city? Turns out the colours each represent something.

By Carly Maga

Picasso Exhibition Coming to the AGO Next Year

By Hamutal Dotan