The state of the arts : living with culture in Toronto / Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, Jonny Dovercourt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilcox, Alana.

Palassio, Christina.

Dovercourt, Jonny.

Series:

UTOpia (Toronto, Ont.) ; v. 2.

UTOpia ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Canadian--Ontario--Toronto.

Arts, Canadian.

Toronto (Ont.)--Civilization--21st century.

Toronto (Ont.).

Toronto (Ont.)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity. ?Live With Culture' banners flap over the city. And across the city, donors are ponying up millions for the ROM and the AGO. Culture's never had it so good. Right? The State of the Arts explores the Toronto arts scene from every angle, applauding, assailing and arguing about art in our fair burg. The essays consider the big-ticket and the ticket-free, from the Opera House and the CNE to the subconscious art of graffiti eradication and underground hip-hop. In between, you'll find considerations art in the suburbs, how busine

Contents:

TOuchstones

The city as cultureshed / John Lorinc

Live Without Culture: An apology, on the occasion of a recent art project / RM Vaughan

Toronto: The once and future city / Christopher Hume

The Hard Loft / Karen Mines

The secret capitalist / KateCarraway

The challenges of the creative city / Dylan Reid

$5 / Brian McLachlan

TOpography

The invisible city: What happens when Hollywood North plays itself? / Jason Anderson

Toronto needs freakier rich people / Kevin Temple

Breaking the mirror: How to look at fashion in Toronto / Damian Rogers

Annexing a space for poetry in the new Toronto / Stephen Cain

Now the feminists will play with your mind / Lisa Rundle

All the world's onstage: Toronto's multiplicity of arts festivals / Stephanie Verge

Connected: How Stille Post changed the Toronto indie-music scene / Ryan McLaren

The cult[ure] of the architect, or, the Fountainhead effect / Mark Fram

Our hidden cameras: Photoblogging the city's every move / Anna Bowness - m

Toronto's Tower of Babel / Amy Lavender Harris

Leaving their mark: Street art in Toronto / Nadja Sayej

The Arts at the Ex: The history and potential of Exhibition Place / James MacNevin

TOil

E = emcees 2 : Toronto rappers buddy up to solve the riddle of the missing infrastructure / More Or Les & Jill Murray

Magnetic North: Toronto's magazines come off the page / LisaWhittington-Hill

The root of the problem / Adam Vaughan

Was this book shade-grown? Towards fair-trade Toronto lit / Sandra Alland

A future history of Toronto's art cultures: A conversation / Brenda Goldstein & Dana Samuel

Urban enchantment: What city-lovers can learn from theatre in public space / Sarah B. Hood

Toronto video: Challenging forms, channelling change / Marc Glassman

From idle to idol / Katarina Gligorijevic-Collins

In the small-press village: New trends in adequate stapling / Stuart Ross

Tomorrow

Mom, Dad, will you co-sign my mortgage? Creating a new home for Toronto's small arts organizations / Natalie de Vito

Project Laneway / Brendan Cormier, Christopher Pandolfi & Pablo Torres

The family that rocks together stays together / Liz Forsberg

This is your city on technology / Hanna Cho & Dory Kornfeld

The Great Divide / Claudia McKoy

From NuMuFest to Muziekgebouw: New music in Toronto / Jason van Eyk

Artburbia? / Shawn Micallef

Toronto the dead: Imagining a lost city / Michael Redhill

The party line: Toronto's turn towards a participatory aesthetics / Carl Wilson - uTOpians.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781770562134

1770562133

9781770562141

1770562141

OCLC:

782872472