Results tagged “luisjacob”

The City has chosen the winner for the Dufferin Jog public-art competition from the four candidates that we wrote about last week: Luis Jacob, whose unnerving tie-dyed mosaics will line the walls of the underpass and creep out local children as of around spring 2010.

The Dufferin Jog—that railway underpass at Dufferin and Queen—has long been considered a public art icon in Toronto. It's just that the public art it's displayed has been graffiti and paste-ups rather than municipally chosen sculpture.

“Desire” is the unifying theme behind most of the ten art and craft exhibitions currently on view at the York Quay Centre down at Harbourfront.

Torontoist still has mixed feelings about condos. On one hand, they're harbingers of gentrification, and are often built with little or no regard for the surrounding neighbourhoods. On the other hand, it beats paving over another patch of forest or farmland for a subdivision.

We're pretty excited about seeing Stan Douglas' new installation at the AGYU. Douglas is one of Canada's biggest video artists and his new work Inconsolable Memories is inspired by a 1960s Cuban film. Combine this with his breathtaking large-format photos of Havana and you get a pretty special show.

Seems like just days ago we were dealing with smog alerts, heat stroke and gooey asphalt. Now we're thinking about fall fashion, the film fest and falling leaves. Where did the summer go? More importantly where did all those summer art shows go?