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Tag Archives: Montreal
The City Within
The City Within by Toronto-based artist Natalie Draz is a brilliant artists’ book and city map simultaneously. This kinetic piece is housed in a plain pine box with what first appears to be an irregularly shaped booklet , but expands … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Canada, Maps
Tagged Art Books, artists' books, Book Artists, Montreal
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There is a crack in everything
It’s hard to believe that Leonard Cohen has been gone for a year, but this week his hometown of Montreal marked his passing with a wonderful mural portrait in the heart of downtown. Created by LA-based artist El Mac, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Canada, Music, Photography
Tagged Leonard Cohen, Montreal, Mural Art, Street Art
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Montreal : 18 Nuances De Gai
Artist Claude Cormier created an amazing polychromatic canopy covering one kilometer of Montreal’s central pedestrian street Boulevard Sainte-Catherine for the ongoing Aires Libres Festival. The rainbow installation celebrates the city’s LGBT community, the 10th anniversary of the festival, and the … Continue reading
Livres dans le metro
Inspired by actress Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf project which anonymously distributes free books on subways in London, Paris, and New York City, Montreal bibliophile and YouTuber Audrée Archambault created Livres dan le Métro. For the last eight months she has been leaving French … Continue reading
Light Up Winter
If you’ve ever visited Montreal during the winter months, then you know that it can be cold, dark and dreary, but each year the Luminothérapie festival discovers new and entertaining ways to dispel the gloom and lighten up the season. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Canada, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Brussells, Installation art, light art, Montreal, Street Art
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It’s Cooler Underground
Canadian photographer Chris Forsyth has been spending most of his free time underground for the past few years. Beginning in his home town of Montreal, he has traveled the world’s underground transit systems capturing very stylized images for a series … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Canada, Europe, Photography, Public Transport
Tagged Berlin, Metro, Montreal, Stockholm
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Montreal in History
Here in the New World we tend to forget that we too have a history. Montreal, one of my all time favorite North American cities, was founded in 1642. In the run-up to next year’s 375th anniversary celebrations, Montreal tourism folks … Continue reading
Winter Therapy
This time of the year, most folks in the northern hemisphere could do with a little “luminotherapie”; and none more than the residents of chilly Canada. Impulse is a fabulously fun interactive art installation in the heart of Montreal made … Continue reading
Not so secret, but worth a look anyway
Love Home Swap, a popular home exchange website, analyzed more than 700,000 travel tips from 70,000 site members to create a list of travel recommendations. here’s the result in their “Top 150 Secret Destinations” infographic. Maybe not so secret, but … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Canada, Europe, Museums, Restaurants, South America, Tourism, USA
Tagged Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Montreal, Sydney, Vienna
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Underground Art
Montreal-based Canadian photographer Christopher Forsyth has been capturing the abstract beauty of his city’s underground system in a series of stunning images titled “Metro Exploration”. He has been sharing the process on Instagram over time using the hashtag #mtlmetroproject. Since … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Canada, Photography, Public Transport
Tagged Montreal, Quebec
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