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Get lost in the Gladstone’s annual art takeover

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Gladstone: Come Up to My Room
(Image: Gladstone Hotel)

Every year, as part of the alt-design event Come Up To My Room, the Gladstone Hotel lets artist loose on its quirky rooms and exhibition spaces. This year, they’re taking it even further, filling the entire building with new, site-specific works from a scattershot collection of artists, architects and interior designers: a wall of mounted papier-mâché masks by Toronto’s Annie Tung, a dark room lit only by neon-and-wire installations from public-space design collective DTAH, and a hallway of irreverent Nike branding curated by local graphic designer Carla Poirier. The event runs to Jan. 25, with live music and panel discussions planned throughout, but we suggest saving your visit for the Love Design Party, where local psychedelic singer-producer and Grimes collaborator Petra Glynt will turn the Gladstone’s ballroom into an immersive cornucopia of sci-fi-inspired visual art, high-saturation video work and noisily entrancing electro-pop.

To Sat. Jan. 25. $10 for one day, $15 for entire festival. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., 416-531-4635, comeuptomyroom.com.

Luc Rinaldi is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist based in Toronto. His work has appeared in Maclean’s, Toronto Life, The Walrus and Report on Business, among other publications. He has taught magazine feature writing at his alma mater, the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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