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Toronto’s Drake Hotel opened 17 years ago with interiors by +tongtong and became an instant “art hotel classic”: playful, creative, and deeply contextual to its West Queen West neighborhood that’s rife with indie galleries, graffiti murals, and vintage stores. The new Modern Wing at the Drake by DesignAgency—a five-story addition to the original nineteenth-century Classic Wing—is just as rooted in place.

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Janna Watson Amongst Top 10 Contemporary Artists in 2021 Contemporary art evolved from Modernism, which was an art movement during the late 19th to early 20th century. Disrupting the traditional modes of art it included the use of different media. Our present day art subverts formal structures and creates totally enriched and subjective perspectives about existence while using media that simultaneously subverts the traditional paint to canvas modes. We take a look below at some contemporary art...