Hey there, arty partygoers. Where will you be this Thursday, May 22? At the Powerplant's annual fundraiser, Powerball 10: Decadence (231 Queens Quay West), or Gallery TPW's D-List Ball at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West)? One party is for fashionable media yuppies and their wealthy aunties, the other is for Queen West art scenesters. One is for people who collect art to diversify their investment portfolios, the other is for people whose......

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......

Tomorrow night, November 2nd, a new CaseCamp-format un-conference will touch down in Toronto. Combining two sessions from the art community and one session from a related industry, ArtSmash is a unique speaker series that will generate a room full of creative ideas. The event is being coordinated by Ella Cooper and presented by the Emerging Arts Professional Network. Each speaker will be given 20 minutes to share a case study of a project they......

In Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, Winnipeg-based artist Dominique Rey articulates the complex relationship between femininity and spectacle, exposing the fine line between subject and object; public and private. The exhibition, which consists of portraits, a video projection and an attendant essay by Steven Matijcio, documents the lives of exotic dancers working at the Crazy Horse in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (Rey also worked as a dancer, and as such, openly addresses and deflates......

The city is full of high society soirées such as the Brazilian Ball, the Power Ball, and Fashion Cares. Which is fine for the jet set, but the rest-of-us set also likes to get dolled up once in a while. Which is why Gallery TPW is inviting everybody to the D-List Ball this Saturday at 56 Ossington Avenue. The fund raiser will be hosted by Keith Cole and features musical entertainments by Karl Lagerfeld's......

The Contact Photo festival is always a little bit overwhelming and we're always glad that the events span the entire month of May. That being said after a couple of hours perusing the 128-page guide there are a few shows we're looking forward to. 1) Stephen Waddell and Stephen Gill at the St. Andrew Subway Station The two Stephens explore everyday moments of urban life. Waddell, a Canadian transplanted to Germany, looks at the phenomenon......

As part of Toronto’s Live With Culture initiative, an all-night party to celebrate contemporary art is scheduled to start this year on September 30 at 7:00pm and end on October 1 at 7:00am. The event is called the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche and is modeled after an annual Parisian festival that began in October of 2002 and has already spread to other cities such as Brussels, Rome, and Madrid. Private and public buildings will be......

Three exhibits going on right now at the Contact Festival examines how a number of photographers explore the destruction of human spaces. New York City photographer Joel Meyerowitz shows his large format photos of Ground Zero in an empty building converted into the HP Gallery for the month of May. A few doors down at Nicholas Metivier, Robert Polidori takes his camera into the no-mans land of Chernobyl and finally just up the street is......

As long as people have been dying, there have been others claiming that they can communicate with them from the great beyond. One of the most interesting manifestations of this belief was the spiritualist movement of the late 19th century. Hundreds of men and women emerged in North America and Europe claiming that they were 'mediums' attuned to the souls of the dead. The movement's rise coincided with the early days of photography and there......

Ryerson University has got to find some more space for their artists. Take the more than 40 artists showing at the School of Image Arts 3rd Year Show which runs until Feb. 3rd at the Ryerson Gallery. The 100+ works are crammed into every imaginable space. Photos are hung on top of one another, on pillars, behind desks. Travel photos are squeezed right next to portraits, intimate still-lifes compete for your attention with expansive landscapes.......