A list of major art events from around the world.
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Yorkville Murals 2024
AUGUST 24-25, 2024
On Yorkville Avenue, Between Bellair St and Hazelton Ave.
Immerse Yourself in a Captivating Celebration of Art and Culture at Yorkville Murals 2024!
Toronto’s most captivating art and muralism festival returns August 24-25th with a second iteration of the theme No Empty Spaces. Celebrating its sixth year of the festival, Yorkville Murals will transform the street into a cultural extravaganza, where visitors will be entertained with every step. On Yorkville Avenue from Bellair Street to Hazelton Avenue, Yorkville Murals will deliver participatory entertainment and play. Through captivating murals, inflatables, art installations, live painting, art talks, music, dance battles, pop-up shops and an evening block party, culture lovers will want to come back daily to experience the fun.
The event is presented by Taglialatella Galleries and INK Entertainment, and organized in partnership with the Bloor-Yorkville Business Improvement Area. YVM builds on Yorkville’s reputation as a historic enclave of Toronto’s early twentieth-century art scene. The event has been designed as a safe, self-guided experience in the heart of Toronto.
Canadian Art Hop
From coast to coast, The Canadian Art Hop spotlights the diverse and dynamic tapestry of arts through commercial galleries, artist-run centres, and public museums and galleries.
Embracing a multitude of mediums, styles, and narratives, the participating spaces are highlighted as hubs of creativity, fostering dialogue and engagement within their communities during the weekend and thereafter.
Participants should expect great art, interesting programming, and the ability to visit these spaces thereafter.
NUIT BLANCHE - MONTREAL
As the best-attended single-day event in Montréal every year, the Nuit blanche assembles 300,000 nighthawks who brave winter temperatures to fully experience a singularly wild urban adventure.
NUIT BLANCHE - Paris
As the days shorten and autumn heralds winter, the Nuit Blanche event in Paris invites you to see the city in a different way, at night, lit by moonlight, neons and other lights.
NUIT BLANCHE - TORONTO
Nuit Blanche 2020 will be reimagined and tailored to fit the moment. Under the two-year curatorial theme, The Space Between Us, Artistic Director Julie Nagam will focus on the connections across urban, polar and pacific landscapes revealing the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledge.
CHART - NORDIC
CHART will show 100% women artists in a new de-centred art fair format taking place across the five Nordic capitals from 28 – 30 August 2020.
CHART - DESIGN
CHART will show 100% women artists in a new de-centred art fair format taking place across the five Nordic capitals from 28 – 30 August 2020.
THIS SCARED VESSEL (PT. 2)
Arsenal Contemporary Art New York presents This Sacred Vessel (pt. 2). After first exploring landscape painting and how it is informed by ecological anxiety in This Sacred Vessel (pt. 1), pt. 2 investigates figurative painting. A group show of nine artists who each depict the figure in playful and ambiguous interpretations of popular culture and explores voyeurism.
Image sources: Adrianna Calvo for Pexels.