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Michael Snow Sets New Sights, 2012

Michael Snow Sets New Sights At the AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto July 18 to December 9, 2012. by Sarah Milroy At 82, Toronto artist Michael Snow has savoured his share of honours, from his 1995 election to the France’s Chevalier de l’ordre… Read More

Color Match Game A Game of Aesthetic Strategy

A Game of Aesthetic Strategy: The very first Color Match Game was played in December 1987. Since then it has continued to evolve over the decades – becoming competitive in 1999, and made available as a limited art multiple in 2020. The colours themselves, having employed standardized… Read More

For the Bee’s

PollinateTO Grants – Toronto Toronto’s Official Bee is a green metallic sweat bee known as Agapostemon virescens. PollinateTO provides funding for pollinator gardens located in all Toronto neighbourhoods. Priority will be given to projects located in Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIAs). Read More

The Birth of Loop

The Birth of Loop. A Short History of Looping Music by Michael Peters Looping Music today typically employs tape delay/feedback systems, digital delay devices, or computers to create repetitions of sounds. These repetitions can either remain limited to simple repeated phrases, or they… Read More

Damu The Fudgemunk

Damu The Fudgemunk: Earl Davis Hip Hop producer and DJ from Washington, D.C. and co-founder/owner of Redefinition Records Member of Y Society along with MC Insight. I love to listen to his creations, and I’m not alone.. In praise of: ‘The High… Read More

Ready for Foot Traffic

MARCH 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. – Alex Bozikovic The center of Toronto, a city of almost three million, is becoming increasingly crowded. So how can the city answer the need for public space? By remaking streets. A scheme by the landscape architects PUBLIC WORK… Read More

Dubai Window Cleaners

Photographer Albert Dros was photographing the infamous and elusive fog in Dubai recently when had the opportunity photograph window cleaners dangling from the ultra-tall skyscrapers. The job and Dros’ resulting photos are not for the faint of heart. Read More

City Through Aerial Photography

Kevin Lynch’s Images of the City Through Aerial Photography. “There seems to be a public image of any given city which is the overlap of many individual images,” American urban planner Kevin Lynch once said. “Or perhaps there is a series of public images, each held… Read More