“He Painted for the people. She Painted to survive” is the mantra that headlines the Art Gallery of Ontario’s most recent exhibit. Open from October 20 until January 20, Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting, displays more than 80 works from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s oeuvre in unison with over 60 photographs to…

This past weekend, Evergreen Brickworks hosted the second annual Toronto Garlic Festival. The festival, created and organized by Peter McClusky, drew in local businesses and community members with garlic, the particularly pungent culinary staple.

In his public lecture last Thursday, “Sex and the Sacred,” hosted by the History Students’ Association, Professor Nicholas Terpstra shared the details of his current project with a room full of enthusiastic students. A warm and dynamic speaker, he talked us through his plans to bring new depth to historical study with modern technology.

Samsara, which opened Friday, October 5 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, is the documentary equivalent of a poem. The film has no spoken narrative and is purposefully plotless, demanding the viewers make their own connections. Shot in exquisitely lush 70-millimeter film and filmed over four years in 25 countries, the movie employs a floating camera…