Or maybe we're just being presumptuous in assuming that most Torontoist readers can't afford $80,000 paintings. If you can, give us a call: we're free for dinner next Saturday. The Toronto International Art Fair this weekend was incredible, but overwhelming in size. It's still open until 7:00 p.m. on Monday and we highly recommend going. There is a great diversity of artists being represented, ranging from Abstract Expressionist masters to recent OCAD graduates who......

At Torontoist, we're so used to writing about certain niche genres of art—graffiti art, video art, comic art, participatory art, billboard liberation art, performance art, outdoor art, nocturnal art, transit art—that we tend to forget about the encompassing category of "fine art for the commercial market." Canadian and international contemporary art enthusiasts will descend upon the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (255 Front Street West) this weekend from October 25–29 for the Toronto International Art......

Toronto art lovers will have to make some tough choices this weekend with both the Toronto International Art Fair and the Toronto Alternative Art Fair going on. The TIAF is on until Monday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The TIAF brings some of this city's best galleries and invites dozens more from around the world to show off their wares. The Powerplant is also hosting a series of talks tomorrow and Sunday. On the......

The Toronto International Art Fair is just plain weird. People pay $16 to look at art in a dimly lit basement in the bowels of the Metro Convention Centre. Everybody looks a bit sallow, and time seems to stand still as you troll through the endless booths of $10,000 masterpieces. At 5 pm each day, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes gives a short talk and introduces an artist and his work, and, having missed......

Two major art fairs in town this week mean that it'll be hard to wander around Toronto without hitting an artist, critic, art dealer, patron or hanger on of some sort. First there's the Toronto International Art Fair (Nov. 3-7, $16), which is arguably the best use of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that we've seen (sorry comic book fans and sci-fi geeks). It sure beats all those car shows and dentists' conventions. Torontoist highly......