Objects of Affection

If you’re in Toronto this weekend and still haven’t seen the revamped Gardiner Museum – Canada’s only museum of ceramics – check out Object Factory. It’s the first major museum exhibition that showcases state-of-the-art, modern production technologies and their impact on craft, art and design, and how this encourages a shared inspiration between artists, designers and manufacturers. While you’re there, definitely stop in at the retail shop that is always full of beautiful jewellery, pottery, and glass and wood items. Since you’re in the heart of Toronto International Film Festival territory, enjoy the sun and some bubbly on the terrace and debate the aesthetics of the Royal Ontario Museum’s crystal addition, or whether that really was Brad Pitt who just walked by.
- Andrea Mills, Home Associate

Porca Miseria porcelain and metal chandelier, by Ingo Maurer, 1994. Photo by Tom Vack.

Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics, to Sept. 7 at the Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park, Toronto, gardinermuseum.on.ca.