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Spring Zines, Spring Cleaning and a New Updated Zine Catalogue!
Posted Mar 22, 2019 at Arts & Culture
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She Must Be Seeing Things: Celebrating Women Filmmakers Screenings in June-July 2019
Posted Mar 8, 2019 at Arts & Culture
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Thanks so much for your kind comments Louise!
Drawing Material: Fashion Illustration Resources at Toronto Reference Library
Fashion illustration is a meeting place of clothing, costume design, pattern-making, art, drawing, illustration and graphic design. About half of the books in this article are available exclusively at the Toronto Reference Library and cannot be borrowed, but are great resources for fashion illus...
Drawing Material: Fashion Illustration Resources at Toronto Reference Library
Posted Feb 11, 2019 at Arts & Culture
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Perspective Squared: Some Personal Angles (Part Two)
Posted Nov 2, 2018 at Arts & Culture
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Perspective Squared: Some Classic Angles (Part One)
Posted Nov 2, 2018 at Arts & Culture
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Mary Pratt 1935-2018
Posted Aug 15, 2018 at Arts & Culture
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Thanks for such a nice comment !
Just in case it's useful, here's a quick link to over a hundred circulating materials on Islamic Art:
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Ntt=islamic+art&N=37751
A Bridge of Books: Wafaa Bilal Exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum
From July 14th to August 19th, the Aga Khan Museum is hosting an installation by Wafaa Bilal 168:01. The exhibit consists of a ghostly white book shelf filled with blank books with white covers. These empty books are placeholders for items lost from the collections of the College of Fine Arts ...
Some Recent(ish) LGBTQ Art Books
Posted Jun 11, 2018 at Arts & Culture
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Thanks so much!
Had a great time with this series, especially hearing everyone's reactions.
I'll be around to help out on some of the upcoming series, so hope to see you there!
Czech Films: "Autumn Spring" (and More) this Winter
Warm up with these free Czech movies, Monday afternoons, at Toronto Reference Library. Monday, January 8th Vratne Lahve = Empties (2007) Josef, a literature teacher, is pushed into retirement. But instead of a peaceful family life, he chooses a part-time job in a supermarket at the bo...
Thanks for your comments!
[For everyone else I should mention SPOILERS!]:
For me the film is about bigotry and how it isn’t restricted to one class or another. In each of the segments, the characters who are acting out in a bigoted way are usually reacting to something else that’s going on in their lives.
The other theme was how everyone is connected and (under the right circumstances) capable of doing someone else a good turn. So the young hood, hawking stolen goods at the beginning, is the fast food worker who lets the family know about the "thieves."
Appearances in this film are often *very* deceiving. So the smallest gesture can end up causing major reversals in someone else’s life.
If you’re in for the next screening, I’ll look forward to discussing it with you. In the meantime, IMDB has some good capsule reviews:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401488/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
Hope to see you next week!
Czech Films: "Autumn Spring" (and More) this Winter
Warm up with these free Czech movies, Monday afternoons, at Toronto Reference Library. Monday, January 8th Vratne Lahve = Empties (2007) Josef, a literature teacher, is pushed into retirement. But instead of a peaceful family life, he chooses a part-time job in a supermarket at the bo...
Czech Films: "Autumn Spring" (and More) this Winter
Posted Jan 2, 2018 at Arts & Culture
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A Festival of Portuguese and Brazilian Film
Posted Oct 31, 2017 at Arts & Culture
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A Summer of French Films
Posted Jun 26, 2017 at Arts & Culture
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Thank you for your comments. The 10 x 10 catalogs are independently published and do not have an ISBN. We will ask our Cataloging department
to look at making it easier to place holds on individual years.
10 x 10 x 5 (+1) = XXX OOO
Toronto Public Library is excited to announce that five years of the book 10 x 10: 100 Portraits Celebrating Queers in the Arts are now available at Toronto Reference Library and Yorkville branches. The annual exhibit, held during Pride Month, showcases the work of ten queer photographers who ea...
Mystical Landscapes at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Posted Oct 21, 2016 at Arts & Culture
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10 x 10 x 5 (+1) = XXX OOO
Posted Oct 17, 2016 at Arts & Culture
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Lawren Harris: The Idea of North with Andrew Hunter
Posted Apr 28, 2016 at Arts & Culture
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15 New Books by Women Artists
Posted Nov 25, 2015 at Arts & Culture
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Suzy Lake in Conversation with Bill Clarke: Performing an Archive
Posted Oct 13, 2015 at Arts & Culture
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Gay Nerds Explained through Venn Diagrams
Posted Sep 7, 2015 at Arts & Culture
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Celebrate CONTACT with New Photography Books
Posted May 14, 2015 at Arts & Culture
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Glad to help Sarah. Just come up to the fifth floor Arts Department and we will be glad to show them to you. Hopefully this will raise the profile of the collection all over.
Zines at TRL: A PDF Catalogue and a Major Donation
Earlier in the year, Toronto Reference library received a major donation of zines, most of them documenting the punk and new wave music scene of the 1980s. We’ve just added them to our online PDF Zine Catalogue which documents the collection on the Arts Department on the fifth floor. ...
Zines at TRL: A PDF Catalogue and a Major Donation
Posted Mar 25, 2015 at Arts & Culture
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A Thousand five hundred years of Irish Art (more or less)
Posted Mar 11, 2015 at Arts & Culture
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