Most of the bronze plaques bolted to the city's historically designated sites and monuments commemorate some virtually forgotten piece of minor Toronto history—but take a stroll along Queen Street West and some familiar round medallions might particularly pique your interest. The strange plaques were part of the grand Gestures installation by the 640 480 Video Collective, which aimed to memorialize inconsequential events captured on video at ten spots around the city. Each marker was......

On your mark, get set, go register for Run The ROM! The 5km run is scheduled for May 12 and it’s the latest in the Run With Art series from The Movement Movement. The main movers of The Movement Movement, dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin and artist/curator Jessica Rose, are inviting the public to run laps of the museum for public art’s sake. You could be running through Ancient Peru or perhaps Heaven or Hell. Sounds exotic!......

Overheard on the eastbound Queen streetcar at Shaw St. A young couple is talking loudly about how worldly they are when the car stops in front of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Him: (Pointing at the big blue sculpture outside) What's that? Her: That's an "art." One stop later. Driver: (to another passenger) Excuse me, can I see your pass? Him: Her past? Why would you need to show your past to get on......

Without a doubt, this week we’d be letting cheapskate cinephiles down by failing to mention the CNISSU’s Free Friday Film of the week, which isn’t just one but three, starting at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex) with the remarkably hard-to-see The Monster Squad, followed by Toronto classic The Brood, and finished off with the excellent blaxploitation nonsense The Human Tornado, starring, of course, Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore). Check out the trailer,......

Hardly a small victory, half of the fourteen artists featured in this weekend’s Reel Artists Film Festival are women. And of these, the five solo artists highlighted in the festival’s documentaries demonstrate distinct feminist elements in their work. Reel Artists is produced annually by the Canadian Art Foundation, publisher of Canadian Art Magazine, and showcases Canadian and international artists working in a variety of media. Organizer Ann Webb says, "Our festival programme seeks to......

This weekend is the Canadian Art Foundation’s 11th Annual Canadian Art Gallery Hop Toronto. This weekend is also Artscape’s 4th Annual Queen West Art Crawl. Two big art events this weekend? Holy Jesus! What to do? The kickoff for the Gallery Hop is tonight. But before you pick up the phone to reserve a last minute ticket beware the $250 admission price to the event at the Kool Haus (patron tables for 10 are......

Artists Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rose are known around town as the artists behind the Movement Movement, a series of art performances that involve running around art venues like the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, or the Theatre Centre and even non-art venues like City Hall. This time the artists will be running for their homes. It turns out Jessica Rose lives in the condo threatened 48 Abell building. A long time home for artists......

Torontoist doesn't get excited that often about art writing, oh, who are we kidding Torontoist squeals like a schoolgirl over good art writing. So we're pretty happy to see that Canadian Art's spring issue is launching tonight and more importantly has a few articles that piqued our interest. We're waiting to see what Torontoist pal Leah Sandals has cooked up in her piece on art collectives and how they're blending activism and art. We'll also......

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......

The Toronto International Art Fair is just plain weird. People pay $16 to look at art in a dimly lit basement in the bowels of the Metro Convention Centre. Everybody looks a bit sallow, and time seems to stand still as you troll through the endless booths of $10,000 masterpieces. At 5 pm each day, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes gives a short talk and introduces an artist and his work, and, having missed......

Love it or hate it, LOLA, the 'free' visual arts mag that went belly up a couple of years back, was a boon for Toronto's visual arts scene. It got people talking, writing and going to see art. And unlike other publications (ahem, Canadian Art) didn't have to deal with institutional history, a national/international mandate, or pander to senior artists/board members/advertisers/etc. LOLA could stay local, stay fresh and stay true to its readership of local......

Torontoist has liked the work of Alain Paiement since he graced the cover of Canadian Art a few months back. His photos, aerial montages of detailed environments, invite long, Where's-Waldo-style scrutiny. And time's running out on his gallery show at 80 Spadina's Leo Kamen Gallery - the show ends Nov. 13th. Some of Paiement's work is also being shown in Oakville at the Oakville Galleries. Torontoist isn't sure where Oakville is, but it might be......