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Onsite Gallery Presents more-than-human

Avatar photo by OCAD University 22 hours agoJanuary 31, 2023

The media artworks in this show at Toronto’s OCAD University tell a tale of symbiosis, intersections, and more-than-human relationality.

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Artists Parody Toronto’s Failing Infrastructure With Museum Labels

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie October 13, 2022October 14, 2022

A broken water fountain, a chopped-off tree, and an unusable garbage can are all attributed to Mayor John Tory in two artists’ satirical wall-label art piece.

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I am land that speaks Is on View at ArtworxTO Hub South in Toronto’s Union Station

Avatar photo by City of Toronto Culture September 5, 2022September 12, 2022

Curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, works by Eric Gallardo, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tania Willard, and more explore how public spaces reflect our past, present, and future.

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Images Festival: Slow Edition Considers Tenderness as Transgression in a soft landing

Avatar photo by Images Festival July 15, 2022July 15, 2022

Alyssa Alikpala, Erika DeFreitas, Rihab Essayh, Eve Tagny, and Alize Zorlutuna consider entanglements of bereavement, spirit, and love in this Toronto exhibition.

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Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at the Toronto Biennial of Art

Avatar photo by Rea McNamara May 1, 2022May 2, 2022

Inspired by the multilayered histories of the city’s waterways, the biennial’s curatorial team has amassed an exciting array of contemporary Canadian and international artists, with a focus on Indigenous artists.

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A Festival Brings Incisive, Experimental Documentaries Online

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel June 3, 2020November 5, 2020

From the 2019 Chicago election to the everyday life of the mayor of Ramallah, Hot Docs offers a robust online program this year.

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The Idiosyncratic Paintings of Maud Lewis, a Beloved Canadian Folk Artist

Avatar photo by Brigit Katz October 14, 2019

Lewis may have operated on, or even outside of, the fringes of the art world, but the McMichael Canadian Art Collection believes she deserves a place within its halls.

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The Largely Unknown History of Blackface in Canada

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 7, 2019April 14, 2022

Here’s how Toronto’s Gardiner Museum is using a figurine in its collection to peel back the layers of violently racialized imagery in Canada.

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Ontario’s Indigenous Culture Fund and Arts Council Budgets Are Slashed by Millions

Avatar photo by Zachary Small December 19, 2018December 19, 2018

Ontario’s provincial government has said that the budget cuts are being made to balance a $15 billion deficit, but the slashed funding would only account for about .05% of that total, while comparatively reducing a massive portion of the programs and services provided by the region’s major art organizations.

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Turning a Historical Village into a Place for Urban Dialogue

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 19, 2015June 18, 2015

For three weeks in the fall of 2013, a 25-acre heritage village in Ontario was transformed by over 30 artists into a small city of installations questioning lines between rural and urban, past and future.

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Making Art from Life in Palestine

by Nashwa Khan December 30, 2014December 31, 2014

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Rehab Nazzal’s exhibition Visible, curated by Stuart Keeler at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, had me sitting and crying for hours.

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