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Across Canada, art galleries and museums have pivoted to offering interactive online exhibits and free virtual tours. Read about nine such venues here.

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The multi-location event features over 100 works of art by creatives from Canada and around the world.

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Darby Milbrath has only been painting professionally for three years, yet her work has already caught Hedi Slimane’s attention.

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"You might not know anything about art and you just like looking at aesthetically pleasing images and that's fine, that's exactly what it's there for."

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When you stand in front of Monet painting, a rush of inexplicable nostalgia may rush over you. You’ll likely associate the small brush strokes with scenes of recreation and leisure, and you might long for the simplicity of everyday life in the late 1800s: a stroll through a garden, an alfresco lunch, a room full of […]

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Since graduating from McMaster University with a fine arts degree in 1986, Michelle Vella has worked nearly a dozen jobs, on either side of the country, in several different industries. She worked as an assistant at a Toronto art gallery, took a job in software telesales, moved into marketing, spent three years in publishing and […]

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Suspended from the ceiling inside Aesop‘s Queen Street West is a piece of artwork entitled Aletheia by Toronto-based designer Philip Beesley. It’s there to commemorate DesignTO, Canada’s largest cultural celebration of design, now in its ninth year. Beesley will be in-store later this evening to present his creation, which also recently appeared in “Transforming Space,” a dual exhibition held with fashion designer […]

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I’ve been obsessed with Strathcona Stockings since my teens. Although I’m not one to gush over “silly socks,” these botanical patterned, Monet-lily inspired stockings are much more stylish than the comedic Bart Simpson socks you’ve probably found in your dad’s closet. Each pair of stockings is a beautiful work of art, hand-painted, collaged, photographed or drawn […]

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If you’re anything like me, you spend more time scrolling through your Instagram feed than you do talking to your mother. Sure, it’s sad — but content is important! And if you’re going to be consuming it constantly, it’s important these pics and videos are fulfilling your needs. Dank memes and golden retriever puppy accounts […]

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A young family is bivouacking at the table across from me at this Cuban sandwich spot in Toronto’s west side. It’s the familiar flurry of winter coats and diaper bags and awkward stroller manoeuvring that accompanies all parents who dare to eat out despite having a baby. They aren’t especially loud or disruptive; all the […]

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With his new immersive installation, Irreverent Youth, Toronto-based creative Maxwell N. Burnstein is disrupting the hype of ironic Internet art, exploring meme culture and millennial subtexts through an analog practice. Rather than crafting collages with the copy and paste functions of a computer, Burnstein—the artist behind our May 2017 cover with supermodel Jourdan Dunn—uses an X-acto knife to […]

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Every month has a mood, a feeling, some combination of memories, moments and nostalgia. You know it—you feel it—even if you’ve never really thought about it. To help encapsulate the moods of the months, we’re asking novelists to take on the calendar and evoke the feelings of each season through fiction, memoir or prose. Here, […]

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