BY: Bleeding Heart LOCATION: Chinatown PHOTO BY: Lesley P. FIELD NOTES: Over-sympathetic liberal, Jesus on the cross, or a literal bleeding heart: this piece’s name alone can be interpreted in numerous ways. Add a human skull with antlers and you have a mysterious piece of art. But because, try as we might, we can’t get [...]

BY: Wall of Femmes LOCATION: Parkdale PHOTOS BY: Ashton Pal FIELD NOTES: Wall of Femmes, a Montreal-based feminist collective, has brought some of its art to the streets of Toronto. From “Who What Why” on the group’s website: “The women we select to highlight come from all over the world and from all walks of [...]

SPOTTED BY: Melissa Goldstein. WHERE: On the west side of Roncesvalles Avenue, south of Marmaduke Street. WHEN: September 8 at 7 p.m. WHAT: When the renovation/construction company put up their sticker to attract customers, they probably weren’t looking for a Ferris wheel contract. But if Doug Ford’s Port Lands plans go ahead, he and his [...]

WHAT: As the pantheon of street art dedicated to Rob Ford grows in both scope and quality, many artists are tackling not just his mayoralty in general, but his attitudes towards graffiti and art in particular. First there were the "Rob Ford is an Art Terrorist" stencils that popped up around town, then the come-get-us dare, and now the above, from the Toronto Art Crimes unit. A rocky time for law enforcement indeed.

Top photo by ardenstreet from the Torontoist Flickr pool. Bottom photo by Jonathan Goldsbie/Torontoist. A staple of Toronto construction hoardings earlier this decade, to be found wherever citizens were admonished to “Post No Bills,” the dissident quartet of Cosby, Gates, Clinton, and Murray has returned. Since the end of December, the stencilled interventions have been [...]