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Photographer and multimedia artist Martin Reis has a knack for making art that captures the city’s attention. He donned a referee uniform to hand out yellow and red cards to drivers blocking crosswalks and installed colourful Lego installations that bring whimsy and interaction to city infrastructure. His “interventions,” as he refers to these guerrilla-style art projects, ask us to think about the type of city we want Toronto to be.
Read MoreShellie Zhang has a thing for MSG. It’s the subject of her book, called Fusion Cuisine, Now with Added MSG! It features a collection of historic “Canadian” recipes from the 1930s to the ’70s that call for the additive, years before it was used to negatively stereotype Asians, and especially Chinese people, through their food.
Read MoreThe curator Ashley McKenzie-Barnes explains why she gravitates to art that upends expectations.
Read MoreMusical multi-hyphenate and label head Witch Prophet makes space for artists the Toronto music industry overlooks.
Read MoreReflections of Toronto from the archives of Black photographers. The three photographers in this series, C.J. Cromwell, David Ofori Zapparoli and Kalmplex, help us see the stories of Black people in Toronto that maintain the complexity, nuance and diversity that are part of the Afro-diasporic experience.
Read MoreThe Leslieville artist Ekow Nimako makes sculptures out of a surprising medium: Lego. Almost always monochromatic, frequently black and composed of both animals and human- like figures, his art is deeply focused on representation, Blackness and identity.
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