“I took over my mother’s laundry room, and put up a red bulb.” So shares “Lou D,” one of Toronto’s original shutterbugs, as he reflects on his path to photography, and about a new pop-up exhibition he’s mounting called “Top Touring Concerts from 1980s Ontario.” Showing now at Toronto’s historic Thornton Smith-Building at 340 Yonge, the…

Melissa Auf der Maur still has her address book from the ’90s. And right now, it’s sitting on a table at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) along with her vintage cameras, first cell phone, chunky tape recorder and about a dozen old-school flippable photo books. “This is how people lived,” says Canada’s most famous…

Despite our propensity for politeness, Canadians are having a hard time keeping our cool as Donald Trump continues to land jabs on our country, from his new round of tariffs to yet another annexation-style social media post proposing the renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Even our political leaders have had enough with polite…

Upon hearing the news that Dolly Parton died on Aug. 25, at 80, only a year after her husband of close to 60 years, Carl Dean, passed away, everyone likely had their own image of Dolly come to mind. And, inevitably, she would have been smiling. In 2016, the brightest light of Tennessee was named…

This week marks the 57th anniversary of Woodstock, the legendary music festival that saw children of the baby boom generation gather in upstate New York to revel in self-expression, enjoy some of the greatest musical acts of the era and come together for “three days of peace and love.” While it’s not a milestone anniversary,…

At the end of the new Charli xcx album, there is a monologue in which a distinguished-sounding speaker describes collapsing on the street: “As I was lying there on the sidewalk, I did not think about art at all.” This is not Charli talking, even though almost every song on the record leading up to…