This year’s upcoming Drake Hotel x Nuit Blanche installation will explore our fascination with observing others. In “The Fourth Wall”, an interactive video projection by multimedia artist Malik McKoy, an other-worldly creature awaits our gaze from inside an unearthly room. This being engages with its audience, causing onlookers to question whether it can feel their presence. … Continued
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Bold and whimsical and displayed atop the Glass Box, Slovak-Canadian artist Nicole Beno’s Suspended Flora is the latest show-stopping piece of art at Drake Devonshire. Composed of inflatable mushroom shapes and printed with eye-catching, fantastical patterns, the art piece began as an ongoing study during the pandemic when the artist was using what she had on … Continued
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My Night in Nine is a series where we ask some of our friends, collaborators and all-around creatives to show us what a night at The Drake looks like for them in nine photos. When we heard Toronto photographer Dzesika Devic would be spending a night at ours, we knew we had to get her … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are filled with amazing pieces of art created by women, and with International Women’s Day taking place on March 8, we’ve been featuring the work of women in art all month long. This week, we’re closing out the series with Liljana Mead Martin, whose work explores the material ecologies of … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are filled with amazing pieces of art created and curated by women, and with International Women’s Day taking place this month, we’re excited to showcase Tatum Dooley, writer and curator, whose work has appeared in Architectural Digest, The Globe & Mail, SSENSE, The Walrus, and Vogue. Tatum curated the … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are filled with amazing pieces of art created by women, and with International Women’s Day taking place this month, we’ll be continuing to feature the work of women artists all month long. This week, we’re highlighting Inuit artist Angela Aula, who with her husband Oscar Flores created a mural in … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are filled with amazing pieces of art—many created by women, and with International Women’s Day taking place this month, we’ll be featuring the work of women artists all month long. This week, we’re highlighting Miranda Forrester, whose work explores art through the queer Black feminist lens. A Special Affair, seen … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are full of thought-provoking art, including Sarah Alinia Ziazi’s striking Primary Idols, which features representations of women’s bodies, signs and symbols of empowerment and unity painted in red, blue and yellow on acrylic. Primary Idols, seen in The Drake Hotel’s Modern Wing, reflects on ideas of self, exploratory representations of … Continued
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For Brampton-based artist Diogo Pinheiro, the subway stations he frequented were more than just stops on the way during his commute—they’re a major source of artistic inspiration. Offering a unique perspective using colour and form, his work explores urban landscapes and how we move through them. Recently Diogo was invited to live, work and create an original piece … Continued
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Transforming a nondescript stairwell into a place worth loitering in is no mean feat, but multidisciplinary artist and all-around talented guy Andrew Zukerman has us covered with Dragging Mount Ida, his new installation at The Drake Motor Inn. We had a chance to catch up with Andrew to chat inspiration, imagery…and that enigmatic title. … Continued
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