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Toronto
Graham Ramsay reports on the artscene in Canada’s largest city.
Set on the north shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto has a population of around five million. It is one of the most multicultural cities in the world; home to more than eighty ethnic groups speaking about 100 languages. This diversity is evident in the distinct neighbourhoods found throughout the city and in the menus of the hundreds of restaurants – Ethiopian, Egyptian, Cuban, Vietnamese, you name it, they have it. The hotdogs are better than New York's, and if you get the chance to visit you should definitely try the bison burgers.Chinatown is along Spadina Avenue and has been home to a number of the city's galleries over the years as the old industrial properties offered low rents with a central location. But rents have increased and some galleries have been forced to move to new, cheaper premises further west down Queen Street. Just off Spadina is 401 Richmond Street West, a carefully restored turn of the century warehouse with philanthropic owners offering stable leases and reasonable rents to the many tenant galleries and arts organisations, including three of the city's artist-run centres – A Space, Gallery 44 and YYZ.Established artist-run spaces in Toronto mostly...
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