Results tagged “exhibits”

"He's the bad boy of the Canadian art scene," said Nino Ricci, raising an (ample) eyebrow at Iain Baxter&. As the UTAC crowd finished chewing on Ricci's words of introduction, the man with the ampersand-emblazoned cap took his place at the podium.

Anchors are typically water-based—most often found on boats, in harbours, or at sea. Not, for instance, in downtown alleyways. Thus, when we were recently tipped off that a "kinetic anchor," a big and impressive one at that, might be found at a new gallery near Queen and Dufferin, we set off on a nautical treasure hunt.

Urban agriculture is the new green. Now that we've got trash reduction, active transportation, and energy conservation well-entrenched in our collective consciousness it's time for the next frontier in city-based environmentalism, and our relationship to food is it. "Carrot City," an exhibit showing at the Design Exchange until April 30, is trumpeting the latest and greatest developments in urban agriculture. Torontoist was at the opening party Tuesday night, and got the scoop on everything from a highrise tower built especially for pigs to a plan that would have us install greenhouses under the Gardiner.

If memory serves, high school Canadian history classes always struck us as a little wimpy. How, we felt in our drama-loving teenage hearts, could coureurs des bois and Trudeau hold a candle to Napoleonic exploits and JFK? With age comes wisdom, fortunately, and we now find Canadian sagas as compelling as their flashier counterparts elsewhere. Helping us along are organizations like Heritage Toronto, whose mandate is to get us excited about our fair city’s past. In a first for the organization, it is currently co-hosting a photography exhibit showcasing some of Toronto’s most interesting and vulnerable heritage buildings. It’s one of those ideas which works so well that it's a wonder no one thought of it before: get some of Toronto’s great photographers—in this case, members of the Shadow Collective—and send them for a ramble through a few of our most architecturally compelling landmarks. "Building Storeys" is the result, an exhibit which, in the words of Heritage Toronto historian Gary Miedema, gives us “a unique way of looking at these buildings.” Part history lesson and part artistic adventure, "Building Storeys" had its opening party Tuesday night and early indications are that the show will be a hit.

            

Elegant Corruptions, the best-named art show in town, opened last night with resounding success. It's the second in a now annual series of exhibitions called Radiant Dark and the brainchild of MADE partners Julie Nicholson and Shaun Moore. As Nicholson told us, while the "radiant" part of that equation is probably clear, the "dark" might need more explaining. It refers to the "perceived obscurity of Canadian design"—the exhibits are something of a call to arms, a vivid demonstration of just how active a design community we have. (Toronto, as she points out, is the second-ranked city in North America for design work.) While the notion sometimes gets short shrift, Nicholson believes that there is undoubtedly a Canadian aesthetic, which she characterizes as clean, rooted in modernism, and "definitely concerned with a question of identity."

               

World Press Photo is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the support of photojournalism around the world. Their prestigious annual photo contest dates back to 1955; winning photographs from years past include some of journalism’s most famous images: Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam, a lone demonstrator confronting tanks in Tiananmen Square, a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire in protest of religious persecution. Each year, World Press Photo puts on an exhibition of the top-placing submissions in ten different categories. Culled from more than 80,000 submissions, the exhibition is mounted in several dozen countries and aims to teach us both about the state of our world and the state of photojournalism.