Toronto’s Gardiner Museum will reopen next week! The museum closed back in July as part of the first phase of the Museum’s $15.5 million construction project, but the doors will reopen on Oct. 7 (except for the ground-floor galleries). A major portion of this project is being funded by a $9-million donation from The Radlett
Every Tuesday, we round up the best events from the city’s fashion scene. In this edition: a Valentine’s trunk show, a massive clearance sale, a pop-up from a popular jewellery designer, a masquerade and more.
Lisa Anderson has a varied and interesting history. She’s studied archaeology; she’s had various stints in retail and she’s worked at the Gardiner Museum. So it comes as no surprise that her new retail store, Mint Boutique, houses a wide selection of items from a sizeable range of designers and companies. In her words, it’s a boutique that’s “traditional but contemporary.”
Our round up of the best things to see and do in Toronto this weekend. In this edition: Spring Awakening at the Gardiner Museum, Kathleen Turner film festival, an evening with Linden MacIntyre, discussions on global health and Kina Grannis at the Phoenix Concert Theatre.
So yeah, it’s not officially winter yet. But we all know that means nothing in Toronto, where snow comes when it wants to and leaves when it wants to! With the city’s first official snowfall underway, you might be preparing for four long months of hibernation. But with so much to do and see in
You can explore free public art across the city at ArtworxTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art: 2021-2022. Over the next month, free exhibitions are opening year-long at hubs located at Union Station, Scarborough Town Centre, Downsview Park, and Cloverdale Common, and will feature contemporary art from local and international artists. As part of the City
Plus Gardiner hosts Ai Weiwei, Nicholas Campbell steps down from dramatic new play due to illness and more
Foodie power rankings for the top new spots everyone’s talking about
Toronto-grown indie rock band Metric returns to its hometown this Saturday with a new appearance at the Air Canada Centre. The group released its fifth album back in June, so you can be sure to hear new hits, such as “Youth Without Youth” and “Breathing Underwater,” but hopefully some classics like “Help, I’m Alive.”
Torontonians like to think our city is home to world-class galleries and museums. We have dinosaur fossils, works by Pablo Picasso and chestnut-crushing clogs. But when the Art Newspaper recently released its annual report on international museum attendance, not one local museum drew more than a million visitors, paling in comparison to the real heavyweights
As Halloween creeps upon us, perhaps one way to get into the spirit is by visiting a ghost town. These towns aren’t actually filled with ghosts, they’re abandoned (or nearly abandoned) areas that still have visibly eerie remains of buildings and infrastructure (so still kind of creepy). As it turns out, there are quite a
If you can’t make it to the North Pole this year, there’s plenty of fun going on in the city to keep the kids entertained during the winter break in Toronto. From outdoor excursions to keep them moving, to indoor activities that are sneakily educational, get them engaged and unplugged… at least for a little
The life-affirming, winter-surviving, frown-turning secrets of 10 of the city’s happiest people
