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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Botto + Bruno

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery

Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery

Photo: Lost Time IV, 2013
Artist: Botto + Bruno
Exhibition: From May 8 to June 29, Botto + Bruno present a wall-sized installation—comprising text, drawings, photographs and photo collages—at Pari Nadimi Gallery. The Italian duo’s work depicts marginal spaces as part of an examination of “the revolts, wishes, and dreams of the suburbs.”

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Weekend Events Roundup: May 17 to 19

THESE WEEKEND EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES ARE GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOUR TIME IN TORONTO EVEN MORE MEMORABLE!

Among this weekend's events is Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

Among this weekend’s events is Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

“Wascally Wabbit” on Stage and Screen
After sold-out performances in 2011, everyone’s favorite animated rabbit returns this Saturday to the Sony Centre. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony blends big-screen projection of classic cartoons with a live performance of their original scores by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. It’s been more than two decades since Bugs Bunny on Broadway became a record-setting hit across North America. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony is its spiritual successor, and aims to merge modern technology with the timeless magic of a live orchestra (and classic Looney Tunes animation).

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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Edith Maybin

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Courtesy of O'Born Contemporary

Courtesy of O’Born Contemporary

Photo: Untitled, 2013
Artist: Edith Maybin
Exhibition: From May 10 to June 8, Edith Maybin presents her series “The Girl Document” (in which the above image is included) at O’Born Contemporary. In these layered, surreal still lives, the celebrated photographer seeks to reveal something of “the liminal space between girl and woman.”

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Outside Art in the Distillery District

Raw Eco Jewellery is but one vendor on hand at Artfest in the Distillery District

Raw Eco Jewellery is but one vendor on hand at Artfest in the Distillery District

MAY 18 TO 20  The Distillery Historic District is already a prime location for browsing the wares at designer boutiques, galleries and studios; it’s even more of a shopping sweet spot when more than 85 Canadian artists and craftspeople assemble here for Artfest. Spend the Victoria Day long weekend strolling the Distillery’s cobblestone streets and ogling unique baubles by Raw Eco Jewellery, wool works by Knit Gallery, art by Lory MacDonald and much more. Live music and gourmet food products add to the attraction of this open-air market. Free admission; visit artfestontario.com for more information.  —Anna Marszalek

Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Doug Ischar

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Contact-Photography-Festival-Toronto---Gallery-44

Photo: MW 1, 1985/2009
Artist: Doug Ischar
Exhibition: From May 3 to June 15, Gallery 44 presents American artist Ischar’s “Marginal Waters” photographs, which depict notions of queer masculinity in the 1980s, as well as a selection of his video installation work from the 1990s.

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14 Unforgettably Unusual Things to Do in Toronto

By CAROL SPODE

Ususual Things to Do in Toronto

Unusual Things to Do in Toronto: walk on the edge of the CN Tower (Photo: Ravenshoe Group)

There is no end of popular things to do in Toronto—CN Tower, Toronto Islands, Casa Loma—but seasoned travellers may be looking for activities and attractions that show them a hidden side of the city. Travellers looking for things to do in Toronto that are a little different, we’ve compiled these selections of 14 cool, not-so-obvious experiences that even the locals might have missed.

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— Carol Spode runs Tailor-Made Toronto—http://britgirlintoronto.wordpress.com—which offers Toronto-based itinerary planning tailored to a client’s interests and time frame. If you are a visitor, have visitors coming to stay or simply want to find out how exciting and diverse Toronto can be, then leave a comment on Carol’s blog. Contact: britgirlintoronto@wordpress.com.

 

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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Arnold Newman

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

© Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images

© Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images

Photo: Henry Moore, Much Hadham, England, 1966-72
Artist: Arnold Newman
Exhibition: From May 2 to October 20, the Art Gallery of Ontario highlights its photographic collection—which began with the 1977 purchase of Newman’s collage portrait shown above—with an exhibition entitled “Light My Fire: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography.” As its title suggests, the show considers a number of philosophical and artistic propositions about image making, and features more than 200 works by such photographers as Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon, Liz Magor and many others.

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Glass Artist Dan Dailey Displays at Sandra Ainsley Gallery

Glass artist Dan Dailey displays whimsical busts such as Brilliant, plus many other pieces, at Sandra Ainsley Gallery

Glass artist Dan Dailey displays whimsical busts such as Brilliant, plus other works, at Sandra Ainsley Gallery

APRIL 6 TO JULY 1  In the hands of Dan Dailey, a typically transparent medium becomes something more unique, more meaningful. The renowned American glass artist transforms simple vessels into totemic idols, sculpts colourfully emotive human busts and even creates intricate “3D drawings” using painted brass. His works’ compelling nature can be explored for the first time in Canada in more than 20 years, exclusively at Sandra Ainsley Gallery. Complementing the exhibition is a display of bold glass and metal jewellery by Dailey’s wife, Linda MacNeil.  —Anna Marszalek

• Sandra Ainsley Gallery, 100 Sunrise Ave., 416-214-9490; sandraainsleygallery.com
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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Jonathan Hobin

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Courtesy of the Gladstone Hotel

Courtesy of the Gladstone Hotel

Photo: Seal Heart, 2010
Artist: Jonathan Hobin
Exhibition: From May 2 to 31, the Gladstone Hotel presents Jonathan Hobin’s “In the Playroom,” a provocative series of photographs in which children reenact significant—and decidedly non-innocent—events from recent world history.

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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Shai Kremer

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Courtesy of Julie M Gallery

Courtesy of Julie M Gallery

Photo: Abstract No. 3, from the series “World Trade Centre Concrete Abstracts,” 2012
Artist: Shai Kremer
Exhibition: From April 11 to May 26, Shai Kremer presents two ongoing series of photo-based works at Julie M Gallery. “World Trade Centre Concrete Abstracts” is composed of collage-style works depicting the progress the World Trade Centre’s reconstruction over the past 10 years, while “Notes from the Edges” highlights “includes unsettling portraits of Manhattan’s skyline, shot from the city’s derelict fringes”

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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Danny Lyon

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Photo: Etherton Gallery and Stephen Bulger Gallery

© Etherton Gallery and Stephen Bulger Gallery

Photo: Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, 1966
Artist: Danny Lyon
Exhibition: From May 11 to June 15, the camera’s power to record for the masses places, people and events that would otherwise be clandestine is observed at Stephen Bulger Gallery, which this month features Danny Lyon’s seminal “Bikeriders” series of images. Shot between 1963 and ’67, Lyon’s photos represent a pioneering effort in the then-novel field of participatory journalism. In the manner of contemporaries like Hunter S. Thompson and George Plimpton, Lyon fully immersed himself in his subject—in this case, Chicago’s Outlaws motorcycle club, of which he became a member—to provide an intimate and truly authentic view of an American counterculture.

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Contact Photography Festival Daily Pick: Harry Enchin

Where Toronto brings you a new image for each day of the 2013 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout May with exhibitions at more than 175 venues across the city.

Today’s top Contact Photography Festival pick:

Courtesy of Bezpala Brown Gallery

Courtesy of Bezpala Brown Gallery

Photo: Bay and College 2A 1930/2012, 2012
Artist: Harry Enchin
Exhibition: From April 27 to May 22, Bezpala Brown Gallery hosts Enchin’s photo-collage series “Toronto Time,” which interweaves contemporary and bygone elements of this city in a commentary on its historical and ongoing growth.

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