by janecanapini | Aug 29, 2019 | Art, Nature & Wildlife, Ontario
Nellie Lake near Killarney by AY Jackson, 1933 The impressionist paintings of Canada’s Group of Seven artists may be familiar to many of us in Canada (and many more of us now, thanks to actor Steve Martin’s high-profile interest in Lawren Harris.) But it’s only when...
by janecanapini | Apr 25, 2019 | Art, Attractions, Ontario
“Elephant Family” by Zimbabwean sculptor Lacknos Chingwaro. Two hours from Toronto in an area known more for its lakes than its culture lies an outdoor art gallery with more than 500 pieces of Zimbabwean stone sculptures. That place is ZimArt near Rice...
by janecanapini | May 18, 2018 | Architecture, Art, Cuba, Events & Festivals
White sands, mangroves, tropical breezes and a never-ending supply of rum-based cocktails. If this is the image that comes to mind when you think of the keys just off Cuba’s northern coast, it’s a pretty good one, and one that tens of thousands of Canadian...
by janecanapini | Apr 20, 2018 | Art, Museums, Toronto
Toronto has gone downright dotty. As in ‘polka-dotty’ for the Yayoi Kusama exhibition on now at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Not since King Tut’s treasures drew over 400,000 visitors in 2009 have I seen such a frenzy to get tickets to an exhibition,...
