![]() ![]() While 2021–22 was officially Toronto’s Year of Public Art ( artworxto.ca), this long weekend is a great time to tour our own city’s rich legacy of street art. I realized how many of Toronto’s street artists are recognized around the world at art festivals and with high-profile commissions, and deserve more name attention at home. ![]() The annual public-art fest, which happens in the city’s trendy Saint-Laurent Boulevard neighbourhood, has expanded from a modest three-day event into a 10-day party, attracting big names such as Shepard Fairey and Saype, who, this year, created a massive eco-friendly mural of two interlocking arms on the grassy eastern slope of Mount Royal as part of an ongoing project to create the world’s largest human chain. In June, I spent a weekend touring Montreal’s vibrant street-art scene with the MURAL Festival team.
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