Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—painted a portrait of a Torontonian every day in 2008. And each Monday, concluding today, we featured one of those portraits here.
Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—painted a portrait of a Torontonian every day in 2008. And each Monday, concluding today, we featured one of those portraits here..
If a Canadian is someone who gets excited when an American television show mentions Canada, then a Torontonian might be someone who gets excited when an international newspaper mentions Toronto. (And yes, we know about that list.).
Photo by marco 2000...
Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up.
Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery..
Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back.).
Like it or lump it, Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry's AGO is calling. For Gehry non-fans, the redesign represents the typical over-the-top, singular view that Gehry is famous for. His AGO - while consciously not affecting the skyline - does change the make-up of the area without much public consult. For instance, the above Transformation Model shows the Ark-like extension over the sidewalk. This, as we understand it, presents a bit of a pickle for public space advocates: while the AGO is a public institution, their encroachment onto the sidewalk of Dundas Street could be seen as intrusive.