This weekend, resist the urge to do the same old bar hop and try a more sophisticated means of indulging your party ADD: the art show hop. Okay, so we just invented that term, but the city does have three rad art happenings going on almost simultaneously this Friday, November 30. And we say, why choose? To start your adventure, knock back a whiskey for warmth and head down to the Harbourfront, where the......

Reminder: this weekend (September 14–16) is the Queen West Art Crawl, or QWAC ("quack"), where the streets and parks of trendy West Queen West become galleries. What's going on? Well, Parkdale is hosting an exhibition of performance art and installation called Play/Grounds. You can head over to Trinity Bellwoods Park for the outdoor art show/sale or Art That Binds. Check out what's happening at the Gladstone in the evening—you wouldn't want to miss the......

Pandas is an odd name for anything, and more than a little disconcerting if you're a fan of large, bamboo-eating quadripeds who don't like to breed. Luckily for pandas and those who love them, the No Pandas gallery isn't a radical anti-panda group dedicated to the final destruction of that most endangered of species. It's an art show at Xpace, dedicated to exposing North Americans to China's up-and-coming young artists. Curator Siya Chen, who......

Submission deadlines are quickly approaching for some of this year’s most exciting weekends of outdoor artfulness and it’s time to get those applications together. The ALLEYJAUNT will return for its 5th year in alleyways, garages and green spaces in and around Trinity Bellwoods Park. Proposals are being accepted from local artists and art collectives for site-specific installations, projects that incoporate urban themes and artistic interventions. The alleyway art will be taking place August 11 and......

For a lot of people who grew up in the '80s, the cartoon/comic book series Masters of the Universe was a large part of their childhood. It makes a lot of sense, then, that the Masters of the Universe: He-Man She-Ra Art Show happening at Magic Pony is a fundraiser for the Hospital of Sick Kids. For those unaware of the series, MOTU was started in the early '80s as a line of toys made......

If you were at the Yung Sing Pastry Shop on Baldwin Street yesterday morning, you could have eaten some yummy buns with the Food Jammers. Yay you say. But wait, who are the Food Jammers? They are the hosts of the television show of the same name that take a humorous, thoughtful and often absurd look at eating and preparing food. A typical episode will find Food Jammers' Christopher Martin, Micah Donovan and Nobu Adilman......

Are you a fan of municipal development and urban planning? Do you read Spacing (or at least say you do)? Then you should endeavor to visit A Visual Legacy: The City of Toronto’s Use of Photography, 1856-1997, an exhibition of images from the City of Toronto Archives. The exhibit holds appeal to planners and history geeks alike simply because all images were taken specifically for administrative purposes, meaning that these shots aren’t pretty enough......

Musically inclined kids start bands, film inclined kids pick up cameras, but what do art inclined kids do. Well they could paint but you'll soon find that you run out of fridge space to hang up all those pretty drawings. If you're like the people behind Whippersnapper gallery you open up your own gallery. This is the gallery's second incarnation, the first was on Front St. East. Where they held fun events like a 24-hour......

Who needs an excuse to visit a pretty new bookstore? Type, the new bookstore near Trinity Bellwoods which we've mentioned before on this blog is having a very appropriate art show. Nano - Nano is the graduation show from OCAD’s “Nano-publishing: Independent Publications” program taught by Torontoist pal Shannon Gerard. The works explore the cultural place of the book, everything from threatened, obsolete artifact to beautiful art form. The opening of the show will......

Torontoist notices that the City's BikeWeek celebration seems to stretch a little longer each year. The 2006 edition officially stretches from May 29 to June 11, almost two weeks, and if you include the fact that many of the events started well before the 29th you could almost rename the event BikeMonth. But we digress. The first large event is Monday's Breakfast and Lunchtime cycling fest at City Hall which will include a group......

Though it's a bit late to make it to the opening, there's still plenty of time to check out this exhibit, Jennifer Matotek's "Suck", at the Lower Mailbox Gallery. Housed at 12 Beatrice Street (just North of Dundas), the Lower Mailbox Gallery is certainly Toronto's tiniest art display space. The LMG is taking proposals, so if you've always dreamed of curating a tiny art show, now's your chance. The mailbox is 27 cm wide......

With the temperature inching just above freezing this weekend Torontoist might just have to bring out our bike. We miss riding it around town, dodging cabbies, avoiding horse crap (if you're Matt B.) and just feeling the cold Toronto air in our freezing faces. Ah, bike-riding in Winter. That being said it's never too early to think about those summer months when bike-riding is a little less of an ordeal. The Toronto International Bicycle Show......

Eye contributor Liisa Ladouceur helps run the Royal Sarcophagus Society a neo-gothic collective that makes and sells crafts, organizes readings and more. The group's latest event is Wanderlust,an evening of raunchy road-trip tales, provocative poetry and more tonight at the Gladstone art bar. The RSS will be joined by it-girl of the month Sarah Slean (her Victorian inspired art show with Louise Upperton is still on at Spin Gallery, just down the street), poet and......

Photoblogging lectures are a strange fruit. A photoblogger lecture is not as organic as an art show, nor as experiential as going to a movie theatre, but it has elements of both. In some ways, it's like a competition between the anti-society behaviour that is blogging and the open-forum idea exchange that are lectures; we can sit around looking and discussing pictures from our computers, but we choose to go to a common room to......

The Queen West Art Crawl marks its third birthday this weekend. So much stuff, from open studios to the outdoor art show and sale to "HOUSE CALL: A multi-disciplinary Experiment Where Queen St. W. Invites You Home." Beyond that, Instant Coffee takes over the MOCCA courtyard, and the RBC painting comp hangs indoors. There are also a handful of gallery tours and a guided ROMwalk of Parkdale. Plus, you can go shake hands with......

Special thanks to the folks at the Toronto Public Space Committee, and their eight-month fight against video ads in our subway cars. Yesterday, TTC commissioners voted 4-3 against allowing Viacom Outdoor to proceed with what would have been a new level of intrusiveness to our journeys around the city. Artists! The Toronto Public Space Committee currently has a call for submissions for The Better Way: Redesigning the TTC: Replacing Ads With Your Imagination art show......

Though the Big Show website features a tent that stirs up frightening memories of our recent experiences under another Big Top, a bit of investigation reveals the show bears no resemblance to the Distillery District's festival of dancing horses and spandex-clad riders. In fact, Big Show is not actually an art show in a tent. It's an art show in a cavernous pool hall (10,000 square feet of art), featuring the works of twenty neat......

There's a brilliant new niche blog on the scene, and its contributors are largely comprised of TO-based artists, cartoonists and illustrators. Drawn.ca is a ridiculously frequently updated compendium of illustration, comics and art and design esoterica. From links to how to make faces out of paint daubs to posts about latte art, Drawn's content is visually inspiring and whimsical stuff. We're especially glad that they've alighted us to this costume art show at the DX.......

The third annual Toronto Art Expo kicks off today, with work by 250 artists, and a concentration on art from Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Mexico. TOist is all for supporting art, and the TAE admission fee is a humble ten bucks, but their press jargon is enough to send you running from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, running all the way to Movenpicks. A sampler:The Toronto Art Expo with 250 exhibiting artists, is the largest......

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