“Tara,” on Keele Street. If you’ve strayed from Toronto’s main thoroughfares in the past decade, down the city’s oft neglected alleyways, chances are you’ve encountered the work of Dan Bergeron. A prolific street artist also known as fauxreel, Bergeron is best known for his multi-story wheat-paste portraits of Regent Park residents that decorated the walls [...]

In today's Urban Planner, fauxreel opens his first solo gallery exhibition, dance companies raise funds for human rights, improvisers make up musical numbers on the spot, and more.

Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. Since we published a set of seven new street art pieces we believe were done by Banksy, we’ve gotten a few emails about another piece on Adelaide Street West between John and Simcoe streets. The piece, we heard—and tried to see, through grainy cellphone-shot photos—starred a (fake) plumber working hard on [...]

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By FAUXREEL AT DUNDAS AND HOWARD PARKPHOTO BY MARTINO

At the Royal Ontario Museum, the portraits of homeless or formerly-homeless people holding signs with self-scrawled messages on them start outside the main entrance on Bloor Street, one large-scale man and large-scale woman standing back-to-back, dwarfed by the Crystal. They continue life-sized just inside, one young woman hiding above the main entrance, an older man [...]

Photo by sniderscion from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. No victors were declared last night in the ongoing struggle between the street and the man, between high and popular culture, between the alleyway and the gallery. In a panel discussion on the evolving nature of street art, the only consensus was that more conversations—open-ended, open-minded, open-hearted—are [...]

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown AT NASSAU AND AUGUSTA, 184 BALDWIN, AND SPADINA AND CECILTOP TWO PHOTOS BY JONATHAN GOLDSBIE; BOTTOM PHOTO BY JOULER

Just off West Queen West, around the corner from 48 Abell and the Drake Hotel, on the wall of a long blue warehouse complex that is supposed to come down shortly to make room for a condo, stands Mr. Loogie. It’s a façade in more ways than one. A constructed storefront for a constructed store, [...]

Fauxreel’s pairing with Vespa to produce street art ads has always been contentious; as Carl Wilson pointed out in last month’s Toronto Life, the intersection of street art and money-making is messy as hell. While one Toronto tagger took matters into their own hands to protest the corporate backing, and one Toronto book store threw [...]

The wheatpaste of Fathima Fahmy was the first to go up just over a month ago. Two stories tall, it stands on the side of a newly-vacant apartment building slated for demolition in the heart of Regent Park. Since then, ten other larger-than-life portraits of other residents like her—those living in the fleet of low-rise [...]

Street artist and former Torontoist contributor Fauxreel (which, contrary to what The Globe and Mail says, is not his real name; it’s Dan Bergeron) received both a considerable amount of disdain and a considerable amount of cash recently (as well as some praise), when he designed and helped execute a nationwide corporate vandalism campaign on [...]