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......

David Altmejd’s art looks good on paper. First off, it’s about werewolves, and who can resist the cuddly therianthropes? From folklore to B-movies, the werewolf maintains a lasting hold on the popular imagination. However, Altmejd’s work is neither folksy nor campy. In the Montreal-born, New York-based sculptor’s elaborate installations, he starts off with the (usually fragmented, decaying) figure of the werewolf, and embellishes it with everything from crystals and jewellery, to S&M paraphernalia, to......

Some cram for exams and stay up all night drinking Red Bull writing essays. Art school kids have to get their stuff together and do thesis shows. Like Memoranda, the U of T Fine Arts thesis show opening tommorow night 8 pm at 30 St. Clair West (running until the 15th). There's also Descry, the Ryerson Image Arts student show at the Steamwhistle gallery until the end of the month. We'll keep our ear to......

At right: The new CIBC Lobby in Accolade East is lovely...so why can't we stop thinking "red rum!"? Full disclosure: Torontoist is a former Yorkie, having graduated from the Fine Arts department several years ago with all the requisite loving hatred. But our curiousity about the Fine Arts department's brand spanking new Accolade Project overcame our lingering bitterness (not to mention our longtime dread of the 96A bus - at least it doesn't go along......

The headline for this post wrote itself, in as much as the title of Canadian/gay/polaroid-lovin/tryptych happy Evergon's lecture at Hart House tonight is actually called Let's Get Naked. Fitting indeed, as most of Evergon's lithe and lovely subjects are shot naked. Fitting indeeder, because Evergon's even shot portraits of his confidently normal mum in the buffest of buffs. Torontoist enjoyed the occasional Evergon siting and/or lecture in the hallowed halls of Concordia Fine Arts -......