In the Canary District on Front Street East there resides a chaotic sculpture by artist Tadashi Kawamata. Untitled (Toronto Lamp Posts) is a twelve-metre-high tower that contrasts with the geometry of the condos, street lines and organized public space of… Read More »“Untitled (Toronto Lamp Posts)”
Well, the streets have been swept, the tourists have (mostly) gone and the village has settled back down to its everyday rhythm. Toronto Pride is over for another year but it left in its wake a lot of memories. For… Read More »Toronto Pride 2023
I went for a little spin around the ‘hood this evening to find that, yes, Pride is indeed bustin’ out all over… … At Turning Point: … At TD Canada Trust (Church & Wellesley branch, natch): … At RBC: …… Read More »Pride Is Bustin’ Out All Over
I came upon yet another Elicser mural on my travels around downtown Toronto. This one is located in an alley off Adelaide Street East, one block west of Sherbourne Street.
In front of the condo The Gloucester on Yonge at 3 Gloucester Street (corner of Yonge Street and Gloucester Street), there is a fairly new sculpture entitled Cloaked Presence. Created by American artist Albert Paley in 2021, the piece was… Read More »“Cloaked Presence”
Coming home last night I spied this new mural on the northeast corner of Gloucester Street and Church Street. Very fitting, I thought, as we’re one week away from Pride:
I’m not exactly sure what the issue was that day, but I happened to catch this Algerian protest as I passed through Yonge-Dundas Square, April 6, 2019.
St. Andrew’s is located at 73 Simcoe Street, on the southeast corner of King Street West and Simcoe Street. The church was built in the Romanesque Revival style and opened for worship in 1876. At that time, its location at… Read More »St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
On the side of the Shoppers Drug Mart at 565 Sherbourne Street, there exists a mural entitled Article 26: A Mural Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International Toronto Organization is a group working in the city to… Read More »“Recipe For Community”
Located at 121 King Street West, this sculpture is entitled Megaptera, and was created by Transylvanian-born artist George Schmerholz. Megaptera novaeangliae is the scientific name of humpback whales, the name translating to Great Wings. The humpback whale here is depicted… Read More »“Megaptera”
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