public art

As a new public-art project, Toronto's LabSpace Studio art consortium is placing markers along the path once followed by the Don River before human intervention in the 1880s. The Don used to be bendier, winding its way more lazily down to Lake Ontario, but with Toronto's growth came the need to straighten the river's course so the rail corridor could be put in place. It was intended to discourage flooding, too; apparently that's had mixed results. [blogTO]