Photo by dan cronin.jpg from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It’s a strange time for Toronto graffiti. On the one hand we’ve got as many cop crackdowns on street art as ever; on the other, we’re still moved to collectively soil ourselves with giddiness when the most famous graffiti artist of them all visits our town. [...]

A few days before the action, some of the Toronto Street Advertising Takeover’s participants met in the living room of an apartment in a home in the west end. Posterchild, the pseudonymous Toronto street artist (and Torontoist contributor), and Sean Martindale, another Toronto street artist (whose work we’ve seen before) were playing host, as we [...]

Ask Torontoist features questions posed by you, and answered by our elite team of specially trained investigative experts (also known as our staff). Send your questions to ask@torontoist.com. Reader Andrea G. asks: Found these on the streets in downtown Toronto. White one at King/Bay and the red one at King/Simcoe. Obviously, a stencil was used [...]

Photo courtesy of Posterchild. Posterchild (Torontoist contributor and Torontoist fave) has spent the last two and a half months in New York City, most of it with his girlfriend of two years, Sonja. One of his projects while there has been putting up what he calls “New York Sunsets“: large black-and-white drawings of the New [...]

After street artist (and Torontoist contributor) Posterchild finished philosopher flâneur Mark Kingwell’s recent book, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, the Vandalist curator and street art advocate noticed that Kingwell’s celebration of concrete and the cities built out of it missed one reverie in particular: graffiti. So Posterchild, the anonymous graffitist, emailed Kingwell, the prominent [...]

Photo by Posterchild. Last week, passersby at the corner of Queen and Ossington began to take notice of a curious wooden crate protruding from the side of a building. Some gathered around it with great awe and wonder, while others scoffed dismissively, thinking, “So what? It’s a frickin’ box sticking out of a frickin’ wall.” [...]

Photo of Love Locks in Italy by golfpunkgirl. So you’re in love. Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before. You’ve got yourself a girl, or a guy―whatever. You love ‘em. But you sure as hell don’t wanna buy a diamond ring―haven’t you heard of that thing called the recession? Lovers, what are you going to [...]

Love padlocks are, if nothing else, the most secure way to symbolize keeping what you love safe. And while Posterchild’s love locks can’t stop cranes from knocking down each piece of our precious Sam’s structure, they’ll likely be outlasted by the sign: the chair of Ryerson’s Experts Advisory Committee for the Master Plan, Linda Grayson, [...]

WORDS: Join the Toronto Cyclists Union at CineCycle tonight for the launch party of Dandyhorse, a new Toronto-based urban cycling magazine. The magazine will feature articles about commuting, advocacy, couriers, safety, fashion, and anything else related to bikes, and the party will have DJs, a cash bar, cake, and—of course—lots of brand new magazines. CineCycle [...]

Posterchild has taken a brief respite from making wonderful street art (did you see his latest guerilla gardening boxes?) to make…dolls?! Yes, Post—long obsessed with the astronaut/space travel motif—made himself a dead astronaut costume at the end of 2006 and has since put up some pieces wearing it. Now, with the help of his mom [...]

Photo by Dimsumdarren from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. A long-running question on Torontoist asks when graffiti can be tolerated. The sticking point isn’t whether graffiti artists occasionally produce good art. Toronto’s best-known piece of graffiti—a rainbow painted on a tunnel by the Don Valley Parkway—inspired Peter Doig’s painting, “Country Rock,” which in turn became the [...]