The big-ticket blockbuster ball is now in the ROM’s court. The Warrior Emperor And China’s Terracotta Army, in its first stop on a cross-Canada tour, contains 250 artifacts, including 10 life-size figures unearthed from the tomb of China’s first emperor. Excavations are still in progress in Shaanxi, where the 2,200-year-old complex holds an estimated 8,000 figures, among other treasures. Prepare to fork out $31, stu/srs $28. June 26 to December. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rom.ca.
David Liss curates the city-focused Empire Of Dreams: Phenomenology Of The Built Environment at MOCCA. Recent work by local artists including Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, T&T (Tony Romano and Tyler Brett) and Yvonne Lammerich explore how we interact with architectural structures. June 19 to August 15. 952 Queen West. 416-395-0067, mocca.ca.
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Toronto landscape painter, art teacher and author Doris McCarthy, U of T Art Centre (15 King’s College Circle, 416-978-1838) and the Scarborough College gallery named in her honour (1265 Military Trail, 416-287-7007) hold a centenary exhibition, Roughing It In The Bush. June 19 to July 24.
In conjunction with the Performance Studies International symposium, Gallery TPW, in cooperation with FADO, shows Child’s Play, video and documents of French curator and critic Guillaume Desanges’s project in which Romanian children enact iconic gestures. Desange’s “performative lecture,” A History Of Performance In 20 Minutes, opens the show on June 10, and Child’s Play runs to June 19. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066.
At MKG127, Micah Lexier curates A To B, a group show about sequence and consecutiveness in the form of pairs, lists, games, rules and instructions, with indoor and outdoor installations. The big lineup of artists includes Cecilia Berkovic, Dean Drever, Spring Hurlbut, Kelly Mark and Jon Sasaki. July 3 to 31. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.
Luminato has commissioned a new work from everyone’s favourite Canadian sound installation artists, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Ship O’ Fools involves a 30-foot Chinese junk in which you can ponder your journey through life. (Trinity Bellwoods Park, June 11 to 20). The fest also features Miami kawaii toy and animation collective FriendsWithYou, who turn Toronto into a Rainbow City for the Wish Come True Festival at Queen’s Park (June 16 to 20), and fashion designer Mark Fast, who suspends a knitted sculpture in the Alan Lambert Galleria (June 11 to 20). luminato.com.
