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Work in Practice

by FARHAD MANOUCHEHRI for urbanemagazine.org Photography: Art Work is Hard Work To the naked eye, it was just an office space; one setup with cubicles comprised of desks, filing cabinets, plants, stationary, and printers -a conventional work area, except that it was not. When I got my admissions ticket to the Art Gallery of Ontario [...]

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The Galleries of Toronto

by TREVOR BLUMAS for Urbane Magazine When we see an art gallery pop up in an otherwise non-descript neighborhood, it usually seems to be a sign of things to come. Regardless of their reasons for the move, (usually cheap rent) art galleries tend to attract, well, other art galleries. Then before you know it, slum [...]

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White Night: Nuit Blanche 2010

White Night: Nuit Blanche 2010

Free TTC! Girls in miniskirts in zero degree weather! Some people didn’t even see any exhibitions!

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Calder: An Effusive Reflection

Calder: An Effusive Reflection

By JONATHAN VALLELY for Urbane Magazine A few minutes from the house I grew up in, on a knoll between two lilac bushes a few miles south of Philadelphia, there is an oddity which has fascinated me since Ifirst spun its single limb in the wind to watch its white and red fingers dance like [...]

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