We're halfway through Black History Month, and if you've ever wondered about the nature of this particular tradition you can find it at "28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month," an exhibit jointly presented at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and Georgia Scherman Projects.

Curated by Pamela Edmonds and Sally Frater, the exhibit brings together the work of 18 Canadian, American and British artists, using different mediums — including (to name only a few) photography, sculpture and video — to explore black identity, black history and the contentious opinions surrounding the traditional month-long celebration.

Migrating Landscapes, Canada's official entry in the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture, has overtaken the brightly lit atrium of Brookfield Place with the sights and smells of freshly cut lumber. Presented by Jae-Sung Chon and 5468796 Architecture, the exhibit, which is on one of its last stops of a tour across the country, is a stunning mash-up of public art and urban-themed design.

The John Street revitalization project has been in the works for years and with a great deal of recent Toronto news devoted to the transit planning war, the final staff recommendations have flown a bit under the radar. On February 6, the finished study put forward a list of recommendations for the "cultural corridor" between Queen and Front streets.

The stated priority of the nearly $30 million redevelopment effort is to beautify the street and to improve pedestrian accessibility by way of widened sidewalks and urban design elements like removable bollards for event-based closures of the street to vehicular traffic.

Multi-talented Canadian icon Douglas Coupland is at it again. The walls of Daniel Faria Gallery are lined with the newest output of the writer cum visual artist, an exhibit called "Welcome to the 21st Century," which shows off the artist's bold style and penchant for mass cultural observation and critique.

"I want to explore how it feels to be inside the 21st century brain as opposed to the 20th century brain," says Coupland in the exhibition notes. Although there's still bits of Canadiana on display — something for which he's known — the main themes explore how art and technology capture the zeitgeist of our time, something that Coupland has been interested in since the publication of Generation X back in 1991.

During the recent construction effort to convert Maple Leaf Gardens into a behemoth Loblaws grocery store and yet-to-open Peter Gilgan Athletic Centre, a time capsule originally buried in 1931 was discovered inside the foundation of the old lady at Church and Carlton. The contents of the small copper box, cryptically hand-engraved with the name M.B. Campbell, were unveiled to the public today in an event at Ryerson.