To be honest, I like naked women more than most people. So Marina Zenovich's documentary film, "Vanessa Beecroft in Berlin", easily attracted my attention. Vanessa Beecroft's art gallery installations consist of groups of women, in various stages of undress occupying different gallery spaces.

As a full time artist, I can't afford to buy food. So I appreciate a free panel discussion that offers coffee, cereal and other breakfast items. Yesterday morning, sipping free apple juice, I attended Vision:2011.

Organised by Toronto Artscape and The Canadian Urban Institute in the Joseph Workman auditorium, the event featured speakers Tim Jones - CEO of Artscape, Margaret Ziedler of Urban Space Property Group and Ken Greenberg from Greenberg Consultants Inc. On the agenda - ways to provide and protect affordable spaces for artists in Toronto.

What song would you listen to if the world was coming to an end? I'd choose something pretty metal - "Burning Inside" by Ministry maybe. When this question came up at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre last night, the popular favourite was 'We Are The Champions' by Queen.

Picture This: the monthly gathering of artists, musicians and other poor people, throws open it's doors at the Tranzac tonight. Host Downtown Cheryl Brown, puts a pretty face on this event while seven others put up the most exciting art you'll ever see on a tuesday.

Shannon Whalen, whose "Barbara Streisand" and "Bacon & Eggs" buttons were a huge hit last show, is a featured artist this month. Asked what inspires her art, she replies, "Jesus is usually around. My powers come from deep within the stone".

Lee Stringle has been up for days working on a new, large scale abstract painting for the event. "I can't even see whats good anymore" he says.

Both Mike Juneau and Dean Tzenos will be doubling as artists and musicians. Dean, as one half of the duo known as Dr. Jesus and Mike under the assumed identity: Powerbomb.

I love high-minded art gibberish - speeches so specific and wordy that only the speaker knows what they're about. OCAD's Criticism & Curatorial Practice majors held their first annual symposium yesterday, entitled "Between Adaptation & Death". Grasping desperately for the meaning of the complex words and references flying at me I listened as seven speakers addressed challenges, trends and suggestions for the future of today's art world.

The first speaker, Liz Pead, seemed concerned that few artists today take the time to learn the traditional, nitty-gritty craft element of art production. A couple hours later, Johan Lundh expressed the belief that traditional production of objects and images is becoming extraneous. According to him, curatory work and the provision of context is now one of the most exciting creative fields.

Dead people just want attention, laying around wondering what everyone on the surface is up to. Are they talking about me? Do they miss me? Do I look okay? This last question seems ridiculous from a person alone in a pine box, but in this case, its not.

Monochrom, an art/philosophy/technology collective from Austria, were burying people alive last night in Mississauga. Visitors to UofT's Blackwood gallery were given the chance to climb into a coffin and be buried under more than a foot of dirt for up to 15 minutes.