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Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist.

Yesterday, sleepy Fairview Mall was transformed into the site of the Canada's Next Top Model casting (and to answer your first question, no, Jay Manuel wasn't there). Hundreds of high-heeled and short-skirted girls (allegedly) aged eighteen to twenty-three nervously awaited their fate before a crush of onlookers and several skeevy guys vying for the best vantage points.

ART: Harbourfront Centre unveils nine new winter art exhibits at a public reception tonight. “Fashion No-no” has artists designing clothes (Andrea Ling’s award-winning Architectural Master’s thesis is pictured above) and clothing designers making art. Curator Paola Poletto and solo exhibitionist Felieke van der Leest (of “It’s a Beastly World After All”) both lecture tomorrow (January 24, 1 p.m., FREE) as part of the Innovators + Ideas Craft series. Also on tonight at the Studio Theatre is the keynote address for the Power Plant's weekend “We, Ourselves and Us” symposium—delivered by anarchist, failed punk rocker, and Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley (7 p.m., $10). Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), 6–10 p.m., FREE.

Photo by Arline Malakian. Courtesy of Lucian Matis.