 | | Because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Artwork: Birdo; Photo: Jonathan Gazze | | You’re looking at more than 2,300 square metres of art. As part of Toronto’s Yorkville Murals festival, local artist Birdo has left his mark on the Cumberland Parkade rooftop, a spot that’ll serve as the site of several related events. YVM runs Aug. 23 and 24. | | | | |  | Artwork: Tracey Snelling; Photo: David Pace/Koffler Arts | | One more for the Toronto readers, and if you’re cleaning house this weekend, this’ll be of special interest. Tracey Snelling is creating a site-specific installation for her upcoming exhibition at Koffler Arts, Intergalactic Planetary. And to make it happen, she’s asking the community to donate all sorts of fabulous second-hand stuff: small neon signs, colourful party wigs, sci-fi movie posters (get all the info here). If you contribute, you’ll be invited to the opening reception, where you’ll see your pre-loved things transformed. | | | | |  | David Spriggs | | To create the illusion of a scarlet tsunami, artist David Spriggs painted 90 sheets of transparent film, which were layered to form this piece, First Wave. See it at the Penticton Art Gallery in B.C. through Oct. 25. | | | | |  | Jo-Anne Silverman | | Shout-out to artist (and newsletter subscriber!) Jo-Anne Silverman. She created this piece (Dance) during the pandemic, and it appeared in a 2021 exhibition at Gage Gallery Arts Collective in Victoria. As she told me over email, the round shapes are a reference to “circular emotions” and all the fear, calm, joy and anxiety brought on by the COVID era. (Thanks, Jo-Anne!) | | | | |  | Karen Asher | | | | | An exhibition of glass artworks by Anna Binta Diallo reflects on Étienne Gaboury’s legacy of light. | | | | |  | Dahlia Katz and Raul Delgado | | | | | Devon Healey’s Rainbow on Mars invites audiences to rethink how they experience performance. | | | | |  | France Film/Les films de Claude Fournier | | | | | | | It’s the tale of two bored suburban housewives, and it features a cameo by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Fifty-five years after its debut, the legacy of Deux femmes en or lives on. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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