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14 must-see shows at Contact Photography Festival 2021

14 must-see shows at Contact Photography Festival 2021 14 must-see shows at Contact Photography Festival 2021 The 25th annual photo festival s shows will roll out across public spaces and galleries throughout the year By Kelsey Adams and Kevin Ritchie May 6, 2021 Contact Photography Festival is celebrating 25 years of taking over Toronto billboards, building facades and galleries with photo- and image-based art. Since galleries remain closed due to pandemic restrictions, this year the festival is switching things up. With more time to prepare than the 2020 edition, there was a concerted effort to bolster virtual exhibitions and outdoor programming. No longer working in the confines of the month of May, Contact will roll out shows into the fall to overlap with the city’s Year of Public Art initiative in September.   

Five of Vancouver s most eyebrow-raising public art installations

The pieces were supposed to be on display until May 21, but were taken down just two days after being installed. This isn’t the first time Vancouver’s public art scene has turned heads. The city has had its fair share of unusual installations, from upside-down buildings to gum-covered faces. Below, check out five of Vancouver’s most eye-catching pieces of public art. Device to Root Out Evil @eastvillageyyc/Instagram Dennis Oppenheim’s sculpture of an upside-down, New England-style church sat in Coal Harbour Park from 2006 to 2008. Part of the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale, the piece was built with the church’s steeple pointed into the ground.

Toronto s Contact Photography Festival expands its takeover of public spaces

Esmaa Mohamoud, The Brotherhood FUBU (For Us By Us) (2020), production detail, mural Courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects The Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival returns to Toronto in May, when it celebrates its 25th anniversary. “We’ve supported tens of thousands of artists over that time; we had 1.4 million two years ago,” says executive director Darcy Killeen, who tries to get to every exhibition and project opening as many as 200 in some years on his trusty bike. Though the pandemic seriously impacted last year’s festival, it did go ahead but largely shifted to online. “Only about a third of the 186 shows actually opened,” Killeen says. The Contact gallery and office at its festival hub on Spadina Avenue stayed shut, with staff working remotely, but the move brought some benefits. “Last year was a great opportunity to do some new online things, which we’d never done before,” says Bonnie Rubenstein, Contact’s artistic di

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