Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting set of talks at the Royal Ontario Museum, “From China to Canada: Untold Stories of the Chinese Art Collection at ROM.” From the ROM website: It was hoping that one of my favourite objects at the ROM would be featured and it was! I’ve …
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Robert Hooke’s (copper-plate engraving of a) flea. The other day I was fortunate to be part of a small group at the University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library’s public workshop “Introduction to Scientific Book Illustration,” presented by Alexandra Carter, History of Science and Medicine Librarian. …
Yesterday, on a frigid Toronto January afternoon, I got a bit joyfully obsessed with a cement floor. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery has been around on the Toronto Harbourfront scene since 1987 but I’d somehow never managed to visit. On Sunday, my intention was to check out the nearby Museum of Toronto’s current exhibition, …