Results tagged “galleries”

This past Friday, Torontoist took a sweet trip back in time via a quietly spectacular photography exhibit called "Thirty in Twenty: An Exhibition of Photography, Food, and Wine." These evocative and romantic black-and-white photos were taken with a tiny 35mm camera back in 1973 when then newly married Toni and Ria Harting embarked on a life-changing adventure to eat their way through ten three-star Michelin restaurants in just twenty days. Friday being the opening reception, we not only enjoyed the lovely images, but had the pleasure of meeting the Hartings and hearing their stories first-hand.

Making an ATM withdrawal is a mundane task, and one that doesn't differ much across the different banks or types of machines, but the Edward Day Gallery is aiming to shake up the experience by injecting a little art into every transaction.

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.

Torontoist got a sneak peak at the newly redeveloped Wychwood Barns earlier this week and our verdict can be pithily summarized as "yippee!" A veritable playground for the ecologically and socially conscious, the newest Artscape endeavour lives up to the hype and anticipation. The Barns project represents a new and particularly hopeful kind of urban redevelopment, and we can only hope to see many more such ventures breaking ground soon.

It was haggled down to $5 at a San Bernardino garage sale, and now it's sitting in a Toronto gallery with a $50 million price tag. The reason? It's probably an authentic Jackson Pollock.

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 taxidermied animals, combining all this within modern display structures of mirror and Plexiglas. While the werewolf itself is a classic symbol of transformation, the addition of such disparate elements expands the metamorphic metaphor into a dialectic between beast and human, repulsion and beauty, decay and renewal, nature and artifice.

Two of our contributors, Shari Kasman and Jenelle Rupchand, are all about arts & crafts this weekend. In this roundup, Shari brings you some of the many weekend fairs going on, while Jenelle's stocking up on some fair trade goods.

Since 2001, photographer, poet and writer Sharon Harris has been stalking the streets of Toronto taking photos of the mysterious "I Love You" tags all over the downtown core. Over the last few years she's accrued dozens of photos. They'll be up at Dooney's Cafe for the next few weeks, with a launch tonight from 5-8pm.

The Tall Poppy Interview - Julia Dault, Art Critic

To give a sense of the kind of craziness that Paiement's brilliant work induces, we'll share with you the wonkiest bit of artspeak ever, used to describe the artist himself by Toronto Life's own Betty Ann Jordan:

Patient as the spider, Paiement captures life’s multifarious arrangements and stubborn quiddity.