PARADE: The annual Labour Day Parade march is happening today, obviously. The march, run by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, celebrates union activists and workers. The march begins at the intersection of Queen Street and University Avenue and moves west until it finishes at the Ex. Best part? Participants get free CNE admission. It's almost worth it. Queen Street and University Avenue, 11 a.m., FREE. ART: It's the last day for curator Helena......

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......

Last night, the seats of Harbourfront Centre's studio theatre were packed with a mix of middle-aged art aficionados and well-coiffed hip, young homos all dying to see Francesco Vezzoli give a lecture and screen his notorious Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula. Vezzoli is an Italian artist known for his work in video and embroidery (yes, embroidery) who set the art world ablaze a couple of years ago with his re-imagining of the......

Another spate of announcements from the Toronto International Film Festival, with in particular an entirely new programme announced, Future Projections. To feature installations, interactive film projects, and other film-related art work presented outside the cinema space and throughout the City of Toronto, it’s to work as a companion to the Wavelengths programme. Eight of the nine multimedia installations will be offered as free, non-ticketed events, with entry to the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery......

Through a variety of media (including photography, embroidered texts, performance, video and painting) The Power Plant’s presentation of Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-fashioning destabilizes the boundaries between reality and illusion; pleasure and pain. Addressing heartbreak, death, the intersection of politics and religion, and the marked body, the works play with the social codes which demand that one remain in control of both body and emotion. The exhibition features a stellar list of Canadian......

Many artists will agree that the creative effort is as important as the final presentation. With this in mind, Noah Mintz (formerly of hHead; presently of Noah’s Arkweld and Mastering Engineer at Lacquer Channel) and Aniko (Creative Director of The Spa Suite at the Gladstone Hotel) have organized an event that foregrounds the often collaborative, spontaneous process of artistic creation: "In an industry where we all get plenty of opportunity to celebrate the finished product......

Each weekday for the next two weeks, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Today's matches, Region I + II, 2nd Round: The Giambroney vs. St. Clair ROWCN Tower Ice vs. ParkdaleThe Beaches vs. Toronto IslandsJane Jacobs vs. Gas-Fired Power PlantWest Side Lofts vs. Condo Boom416 vs. Queen WestYonge Street vs. Anagram MapMiller's Hair vs. ROM......

Each weekday for the next two weeks, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights from yesterday's matches: Jane Jacobs makes Yonge-Dundas look square (107-95): The usually untouchable Jacobs was thrown off her game early on by anti-gun rallies, massive video billboards and a late-game PR stunt by a chewing gum company, but pulled ahead......

Each weekday for the next two weeks, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. March Madness begins today! View the current ladder here. Suggestions for next year will be recorded! Today's matches, Region I, 1st Round: The Giambroney vs. One Cent Now St. Clair ROW vs. York Subway The Gardiner vs. CN Tower Ice Starbucks vs. Parkdale The Beach vs. The......

Because there are only a handful of Canadians in the NCAA, (and who really cares about college basketball, anyway?) we thought we'd cook up a little March Madness of our own - Toronto style. We have created a tournament ladder of recent memes, blog drama and local news and for the next two weeks, you will decide the winner of each match. Sure beats betting on Kansas State. You can view the ladder full......

“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. In The Object(s) of Longing various artists present items that suggest nostalgia and yearning – Andrea Vander Kooij transforms an everyday fire extinguisher and hose into a uniquely appealing object by rendering it in plush fabric. Another group show lining the walls, Re-Collect showcases artists’ groupings of the collected objects......

Our title this week of course refers to Catch and Release, a film which has been so endlessly trailered on TV (and we don’t even watch that much) that Torontoist feels like we could recite the whole bloody film right now. “The man I was going to marry is dead! I’m sitting wearing my wedding dress and moping – it’s a girl thing! Kevin Smith is fat and talentless, but friends with Ben Affleck......

The work of Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara deftly packs so many huge themes and ideas into his work it's not easy to know where to begin. There's a deceptive simplicity to the work, like his date paintings (pictured). Kawara has painted over 2000 of these "dates" and if he doesn't finish the work before the midnight, the painting is destroyed. As if Kawara wants to remind us that that particular day will never come......

Art critic, producer and gal about town Julia Dault has a show of photos opening tonight at Gallery 1313 deep in the heart of Parkdale. Meanwhile, Vancouver Artist Geoffrey Farmer will give a free lecture as part of the Power Plant series at the Gladstone Hotel. "He will discuss his semiotically dense transformations of gallery space in the midst of his Power Plant installation." So that. And further meanwhile, you only have a few......

Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening is the name of the recently opened 'conceptualism' show at the Power Plant. The show boasts birds singing lilting little bird songs, giant wall murals, and even an 'open access door' that allows one to enter and exit the gallery without the nuisance of paying. But neatest of all is Dan Graham's 1972 time delay video piece. The show attempts to "draw distinction between works that might rely......

The works of Vancouver artist Ken Lum are deceptively simple. The bulk of the work at his current retrospective at the Power Plant, are similar to the one here, a large portrait paired with text. The style of his work and the fact that many of us simply rush through galleries trying to consume as much work as possible means that it's easy to miss the meanings and signification that Lum has bundled in his......