Tag: exhibition
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Helsinki Travel Guide 2023 (Design & Architecture)
his is the ultimate guide for art, design and architecture lovers who are visiting the Finnish Capital.
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What is Creative-Mixed Use?
Creative mixed use is a type of development that combines different types of land uses, such as residential, commercial, and entertainment, within the same project. These developments are designed to promote walkability and reduce reliance on cars, while also creating a sense of community.
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Arting at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
My behind the scenes tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Interior Design Show 2022 – Review
My review of the 2022 Interior Design Show, Canada’s premier event for Canadian Design
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DesignTO 2022: Slanted/Enchanted at Erin Stump Projects Gallery
A group exhibition – Slanted/Enchanted at Erin Stump Projects Gallery for DesignTO
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DesignTO 2022: Must-See Exhibitions
This year I decided to do check out the North end of the city for DesignTO. This year I really wanted to experience in-person exhibitions. I’ve done the window display thing, and in this cold weather, I prefer to be inside, taking my time, then outside rushing. Here is my list of sites to see…
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5 Tips for Tackling DesignTO 2022
DesignTO 2022 and these are my top 5 tips to tackling the festival this year.
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Imposter Cities – Canadian Pavilion – Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
An exclusive interview with curator David Theodore, Thomas Balaban and Jennifer Thorogood of TBA about the Venice Architecture Biennale and Canada’s Pavilion – Imposter Cities
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Top 5 Biennales to visit the summer
Here are the top 5 architecture, design and art events to visit this summer
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Interview with Cool Objects: Dinner with Diaspora, DesignTO
My interview with the artists and curators of Cool Objects who will be taking me through their exhibition Dinner with Diaspora, online at DesignTO.
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Class exhibition at the ROM during COVID
Before the lockdown, the first one, I was able to see the exhibition Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic at the ROM created by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. If you grew up on Disney, as I did, my favourite character was Winnie-the-Pooh. I had almost everything you could have as it relates to the…
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Toronto Art Biennial: The Shoreline Dilemma
As Ontario and many other provinces call for a state of emergency in an attempt to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, it is leaving its citizens cooped up in self-isolation subject to hours of binge-watching on Netflix. As an avid lover of the arts, and a board member to a local media arts centre, I too…
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V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma
When I was thinking of traveling to Scotland, Edinburgh and Glasgow were at the top of my list. But when I heard of the opening of a new V&A museum in Dundee, designed by Kengo Kuma really solidified my decision to go there. It’s quite a distance from Edinburgh, a couple of hours at least. On…
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Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
You gotta love a museum with a sense of humour. In the front of the entrance stands an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington sculpted by Carlo Marochetti. The statue has a traffic cone on its head. The cone has come to represent the city’s light-hearted attitude to authority in most tourist books.
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Highlights from CUTMR 2019
The 16th installment of Come Up To My Room (#CUTMR) is an alternative design exhibition that provides a platform for experimentation outside the norms of art and design, at the edges between intention and interpretation. Freed from the constraints of traditional practice, CUTMR encourages spatial exploration that engages our senses, our memories and our perceptions of…
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The Serpentine Pavilion: Unzipped by Bjarke Ingels
Unzipped comes to Toronto, the Serpentine Pavilion by BIG Architects
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The Current State of Architecture
In the recently published book On Seen, Zoe Ryan presents the eleven most influential design and architecture exhibitions in the last 50 years. From This is Tomorrow to Massive Change: The Future of Global Design she identifies the key drivers such as expressive antidotes, new materials and conceptual work that made these exhibitions so important.…
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Sacred Spaces by Meredith Jay
Meredith Jay is a multidisciplinary artist who received a BFA in studio art from Concordia University. Located in Toronto, she makes sculptural installations that merge the digital and physical, as well as, sound, drawing, video and film. Through ritual and devotion Jay invokes and questions human behaviour and the collective memory.
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Innovation Exchange at EDIT
Last September, I was part of a team that produced George Brown College’s exhibition at Canada’s first design biennial EDIT (Education, Design, Innovation, and Technology). The installation was made up of several parts: a video, a timeline, a VR experience.
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Designer Maker User
From objects to services to systems, everything in this world has been designed. Design is a process carried out by people, for people. At its heart is a dialogue between three key people: the designer, the maker, and the user. Currently, on show at London’s Design Museum, Designer Maker User invites the visitor to explore design…
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture
If there is one new museum to see, it’s this one. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is by far the most impressive piece of architecture and culture in North America because it is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.
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Fragments
Currently on show at the Gladstone Hotel is Ryerson University’s third-year Image Arts photography students have come together in a collaborative effort to present Fragments, a visual dialogue which centers on human experience.
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Now and Then: Myseum Intersections
Last night I trekked across the city to see the opening of “Now and Then” a video-art exhibition developed by the RT Collective in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), Myseum of Toronto and the Gladstone Hotel.
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Guggenheim: Art, Design and Architecture
Several months ago, I finally got to experience the Guggenheim in New York City. It was definitely on my bucket lists of architectural structures. After studying its architecture and interior design in school and seeing this epic building in person, all the small details and stories about came rushing back to me. What really surprised…
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On Partial View by Laura Owen
On my recent trip to New York, I visited the newly designed Whitney Museum. Not really knowing how the collections were organized, I went to the top and decided to work my way down. There was a family in the elevator with me and they also had the same plan. I told them, I was…
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Dior Darling!
As the dust settles from the Oscars, it makes me think about the strong emphasis we put on fashion. Back in January, I was invited to take a small class of U of T students through the Christian Dior exhibition currently on show at the ROM.
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