The Ontario Crafts Council on 990 Queen Street West has been showing some of the most exciting work in the city. Now until April 13th the gallery is hosting Variations on Symmetry with the work of Eliza Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang. Both artists are able to draw extraordinary patterns from a wide variety of materials. Ying-Yeuh’s ceramics were […]
Ever since it opened in the 1880s, the Toronto Public Library has been commited to maintaining and preserving our cultural heritage. TPL’s Special Collections Centre holds many valuable historic items about our city, our province, and our country. Preserving old documents, books, paintings and photographs is both a science and an art. TPL’s professional Conservators […]
(Notice of closure Oct. 3, 2011) The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, the Toronto Public Library's collection of materials devoted to Sherlock Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has been open to the public since 1971. Since then the collection's unique setting in a Victorian-style room evoking Holmes and Watson's home at 221B Baker […]
As part of the revitalization program at the Toronto Reference Library, a number of collections have to be moved due to construction and there will be some service disruptions: For the week of Sept. 19, items in the TRL Stacks in the following dewey areas are not available:658.83793 R26 to 660.28449 R59676 M58 2002 […]
An early excerpt from Beauty and Sadness by Andre Alexis (who kicks off our Canadian authors reading series the Eh List at Toronto Reference Library) caused a firestorm of controversy when it was first published in The Walrus. Here’s a brief sample from The Long Decline: These days, Canadian literary reviewers are so woefully incompetent, […]
Come hear ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson discuss the development of Nubian burial customs and architecture in the ancient African land of Kush. Pyramids of Kush2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Tue Feb 01, 2011Elizabeth Beeton AuditoriumToronto Reference Library South of Egypt is the land of Nubia, ancient Kush, whose inhabitants had their own unique civilization. Over […]
I was spawned from the glacier,A thousand miles due northBeyond Cape Chidley;And the spawning,When my vast, wallowing bulk went under,Emerged and heaved aloft,Shaking down cataracts from its rocking sides,With mountainous surge and thunderOutraged the silence of the Arctic sea. —Charles G.D. Roberts “The Iceberg” Icy weather has come to stay for at least a few […]