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“It reminds me of a winery”: people try to explain the meanings of Nuit Blanche installations
On Saturday, almost a million people flooded downtown Toronto for the all-night art crawl known as Scotiabank Nuit Blanche . In...
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How do you make a three-storey-tall sculpture out of clothes, for Nuit Blanche?
There were more than 120 art projects on display at this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, the ninth edition of the all-night art...
Four must-see spectacles at Nuit Blanche 2014
Wondering which of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche ’s 130 installations to cram into your art-themed all-nighter on Saturday, October 4?...
Culture
Material Girl: the psychedelic, day-glo designs of art star Julia Dault
The Toronto-born mixed-media marvel Julia Dault is New York’s latest avant-garde phenomenon. Dault had her big break in...
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Check out North America’s first museum of Islamic art
It’s rare that Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau meet in a place where they aren't the most important people in the room. But on...
Pay homage—er, Homerage—to a cartoon classic at a
Simpsons
-themed art show
Ever wanted to taste Tomacco, marvel at a stone etching of the Stonecutters logo or get a good ol’ Glove Slap to the face?...
Culture
The Nuit Blanche 2014 program is out
For weeks, we've been watching supermarkets slowly sneak Halloween candy onto shelves, and now here comes another nail in summer's...
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The World-Class Toronto Summer Guide: 14 things that are worth sticking around for
What’s one of the best things to do in Toronto this summer? If you can, get out of Toronto. See the world. Find another city’s...
Culture
Show and Tell
Compulsive art collector Salah Bachir flaunts his glitteriest, gayest pieces in a new WorldPride exhibit. Here, a look at the...
Culture
A painting of the Don Valley Parkway’s rainbow tunnel could sell for more than $16 million
Anyone who has driven past the Don Valley Parkway's rainbow tunnel over the past 40 some-odd years and not somehow cashed in on...
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This new online shop aims to make Canadian art accessible to all
Artzila.com, a new Toronto-based online art shop, hopes to do for fledgling Canadian fine artists what YouTube did for The...
Culture
Slideshow: a preview of “Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty,” the AGO’s new fleshy, figurative exhibition
With its latest exhibition, “ Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty ,” the Art Gallery of Ontario is offering...
Culture
Slideshow: a preview of “The Forbidden City,” the ROM’s new exhibition of artifacts from China’s imperial palace
As part of the ROM ’s centenary, the museum is renewing its Far East focus by bringing in an extensive collection of over 200...
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Culture
Slideshow: A preview of
This Is Not A Toy,
The Design Exchange’s exhibition of conceptual toys
The Design Exchange has hosted exhibitions dealing with everything from urban factories, to French lingerie, to the pursuit of...
Culture
Slideshow: a preview of
Elevated
, the AGO’s new exhibition of contemporary art that’s opening this week
Seeing walls loaded with works by big-name, canonical artists from the early part of the 20th century is a great thing, and the...
Culture
Slideshow: the Gladstone Hotel’s weird makeover for Come Up To My Room 2014
Each year, for its annual Come Up To My Room event, the Gladstone Hotel temporarily transforms itself into a kind of art-world...
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Slideshow: Lutz Dille’s Toronto street photography, on display at the U of T Art Centre
Lutz Dille’s 1950s street photography captures characters from the city’s gritty past When Lutz Dille immigrated to Toronto...
City News
Here are some incredible pencil drawings of historic Toronto buildings
Ellen Fielding , a 26-year-old photographers' assistant, has been keeping a Tumblr called Drawing Toronto for a few months. As the...
City News
Slideshow: our favourite wacky and witty painted utility boxes across the city
See our favourite painted boxes »
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A Cultural Revolution: the AGO’s Ai Weiwei exhibition proves why the Chinese artist is such a threat
Ai Weiwei is the most famous artist on the planet, and like many who have held the title before (van Gogh, Picasso), his personal...
Culture
The Argument: Why we can’t stop gawking at Marina Abramović’s pain
Abramović became a performance art superstar by torturing herself and daring us to look away. Why we can’t stop watching In...
Culture
Current Obsession: the indie record label that launched Feist and Broken Social Scene opens up its photo album
Whenever a local band or performer blows up internationally these days, it feels almost routine. For that, we can thank Arts and...
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Culture
Contact Photography Festival Guide: 10 must-see exhibits at the world’s largest photography festival
The Contact Photography Festival turns Toronto into a de facto art installation. For the next month, billboards , subway stations...
Going Out: Must-see art openings in Toronto in May
Every month, we select the city’s best art openings. In May, we suggest Richard Barnes’s new show at Bau-Xi...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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