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  Looking for Niles on the Streets of Toronto We seek him here We seek him there; we look for Niles the Artist everywhere! Actually, this past weekend we caught up with Niles the Artist at the St Lawrence Market painting on a street corner that usually is a favourite hang-out favoured by panhandlers. While he has been yelled at a few times by people who want to beg where he has set up his tripod, paints, canvas, he has been accepted by the thousands who come to them Market on Saturday mornings. “This is a friendly corner for the most part” Niles the Artist (aka Niles the Painter) told the Caribbean Camera. “But I did get my speaker stolen.” He has gained some fame from the media when he has set up his kit and painted in a moving subway train, Yorkville, , Kensington Market and , High Park “I have been painting on the streets of Toronto since I was 12. I sold my first painting at Yonge and Dundas Square. “said Niles. “I have settled lately here at the market.” The 18-year-old artist i

Yes, we accept exchanges. Artist Max Dean, takes back a photography album from a woman who found the pictures depressing.  She get another album from Max.  Dean gives away albums to strangers throughout the Contact Festival from the back of his Volkswagen " Foto Bug".  The Foto Bug was parked in front of MOCCA when this photograph was taken. Have Album Will Travel - artist gives away photographic memories in the street Over the past decade, performance artist Max Dean has collected over 600 photo albums. Family Memories. Forgotten Records. Pictures of the past. At the official opening of the Contact Photography Festival in Toronto, Dean told a large audience at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Gallery, that it was time that he got rid of his collection of albums. Rather than simply throw them away, Dean has made the act of divesting himself of his collection as a performance-based work of art. " About 100 of the albums have been donated to the Art