City Council wants to implement a bird-friendly rating system for Toronto buildings to promote bird safety in Toronto. "This is not a bird-brained idea; it's good public policy," says Councillor Joe Mihevc. "Bird-watching is the second most popular hobby for people, after gardening." Who can argue? Birds flying into skyscraper windows is one of the Top 50 Most Depressing Things About Living In Toronto. Toronto police are cracking down on bad driving in Chinatown......

The Art Gallery of Ontario's latest exhibition features the work of two photographers: Alfred Eisenstaedt and Ansel Adams. In the early 20th century, both photographers were pushing the limits of their craft -- though in opposite directions. Eisenstaedt took to the streets and snapped people in cities, while Adams sought out wild landscapes and untouched mountain passes. The AGO's special exhibition fills three large rooms with B&W images, most of them from the 1930's......

The AGO’s Henry Moore Sculpture Centre has the largest public collection of Henry Moore pieces in the world. Although Large Two Forms, the Henry Moore sculpture that was at the corner of Dundas and McCaul, has been temporarily removed due to the AGO Transformation, the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre remains intact throughout the construction. Unfortunately, the room with the Moore pieces has undergone its own transformation as part of Wallworks, which features artists’ work on......

Does this city ever get enough of Frank Gehry? After all, there is such thing as too much Gehry (Re: the future of the AGO...) The question becomes, when will the Gehry love bucket overflow and flood Toronto, killing everything in its path? The AGO's expected opening is in 2008. But alas, just as the Gehry Exhibit at U of T comes to a close, the film Sketches of Frank Ghery opens. (I should......

Little known fact... Frank Gehry hates using computers. He never used one, and likely never will. Gehry Partners LLP, however, has pioneered the use of computers in architecture and design. Nothing built by Gehry Partners LLP over the past fifteenish years would have been possible without their methods and technology. The AGO featured some of the latter a little while ago with the exhibit of Ghery Partners LLP's (huge) working models. But the true......

Get out your art supplies and make a face. As part of Toronto's Live With Culture program, the AGO is preparing to display 4"x6” portraits created by the general public. The In Your Face exhibit, which will open on July 1, is meant to “celebrate the inviduality and diversity of Canada”. It’s the first time that the AGO is accepting submissions from anyone and everyone. Portraits must can be submitted by June 1 whenever......

The AGO is vexing enough these days, what with construction and tourists and overenunciating docents telling you which way is up and how to do your hair. So consider our frustration already at peak level when we made the acquaintance of 'Abstract Art' guy on Sunday. Everywhere we went, we could hear his brutish voice bellowing at a docent nearby. It all went something like this. In the lobby. AA guy: Where's the abstract art?......