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Art We Love: Lynne Cohen
Montreal-based mega-photographer, Lynne Cohen, has built an international reputation making large-scale photographs of the frightening–though sometimes beautiful and inexplicably moving–emptiness and absences of the contemporary urban environment. Here, in this recent work, her cunning use of mirroring compounds the…
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Queen West Coffee – Rsquared
We used to enjoy having an early morning coffee at Quaff at 668 Queen Street West, but now we enjoy it even more at Rsquared–which, though it is at the same location, has been extensively redesigned and culinarily reorganized by…
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About the neighbourhood: a favour for our furry friends.
We were sauntering along Queen Street West a couple of days ago, enjoying the brand-new sunshine, when we noticed–in front of a store called Heel Boy, near Trinity-Bellwoods Park–this delighted little dog, munching happily at the bone-shaped biscuits and…
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The Little Bed That Could.
Given this expedient age’s tendency to throw everything away and buy new, we think it’s refreshing that TEB Interiors–whose principal, Terry Edward Briceland designed the Art Condos model suites–took on the refurbishing of this elderly settee. Seeing the object as…
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Design We Love – Venice Chairs
These exquisite, custom-made, classical Venice chairs from Industrial Storm somehow manage to epitomize both modernist severity and economy of line with with a luxurious sense of timeless, old-world comfort. The chairs come in two models (one slightly larger than…
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ART WE LOVE: HWEON 1 by CHUNG-IM KIM
Hovering somewhere between painting, drawing and sculpture—and between pure visual art and design—Chung-Im Kim’s wall-mounted, hand-stitched felt plaque (which has been silkscreened), is a crisply vibrant work that seems simultaneously static and yet full of spinning, torque-like…
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MONDO CONDO: Jordan MacLachlan
CONDO LIVING
Jordan MacLachlanApril 11 – May 11, 2013
Opening reception: April 11, 5 – 8 pm
80 Spadina Ave. Suite 208ArtBarrage is pleased to present Jordan MacLachlan’s Condo Living installation at the ArtBarrage…
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Art We Love: Julie Jenkinson – 36 Hours in Uruguay
Designer Julie Jenkinson runs the micro-shop called Verso, tucked into the rear of Inabstracto on Queen StreetWest. Last year she spent three months in South America, thirty-six hours of which were spent in Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.…
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Photos from Art Condos Parka Party
ART CONDOS’ Parka Party [in the afternoon of February 23] was the coolest and coldest party in the city. Hope you had a blast! -
About the Neighbourhood – TYPE Books.
In an age in which the book seems always to be under threat, Type Books seems more and more a welcome, even life-saving oasis of literacy. The wit and charm of Type is exemplified right away in its outdoor…
