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Organizers of the third Nuit Blanche (scotiabanknuitblanche.ca) have grouped the curated events in the October 4 all-nighter closer together, avoiding congested Queen West. Zone B is now in the business district south of Queen and Yonge and Zone C in Liberty Village. Luis Jacob’s installation on urban identity takes over Maple Leaf Gardens, Jon Sasaki populates Lamport Stadium with ironic mascots, and Yoko Ono asks us to Imagine Peace.

Art-world trade show the Toronto International Art Fair (tiafair.com) happens the same weekend as Nuit Blanche, October 3-6, at the Convention Centre. A new feature is Invisible Cities, a video program curated by Micaela Giovannotti. Meanwhile, the Gladstone Hotel (gladstonehotel.com) offers alternative-y UpArt Contemporary Art Fair, with work from collectives and artist-run centres, October 2-5.

McMichael (mcmichael.com) presents a retrospective of Woodland School artist Daphne Odjig, who stands out for addressing Aboriginal women’s and children’s issues (from October 4). Another show there, Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings/Chinese Drawings From Huxian, Jinshan And Quijang, contrasts artists’ experience of cultures in rapid flux (from October 11). Both run to January 4.

Stephen Bulger (bulgergallery.com) gathers photographs on Hunting, a topic that’s always timely during U.S. elections, from William Notman’s 19th-century documents of Canadian moose hunts to Vid Ingelevics’s duck blinds, Terrence Koh’s queer visions and Tina Clark’s food-scrap trophies. September 27-October 25.

The Frank Gehry-designed Art Gallery of Ontario (ago.net) reopens November 14, and a highlight is David Altmejd’s busy werewolf installation The Index, which generated buzz at the 2007 Venice Biennale’s Canadian Pavilion.

Photos at Paul Petro (paulpetro.com) from a 70s collaboration with Bill Jones show Suzy Lake, a U.S.-born Canadian feminist artist whose explorations of persona inspired Cindy Sherman, as Patty Hearst in the days when heiresses had to commit armed robbery to get press. November 21-December 20.

OCAD’s Professional Gallery (ocad.ca) brings in Design For The Other 90%, a touring show from New York’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum on innovative solutions to improve life for the poor. October 4-January 25.

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