ART METROPOLE1490 Dundas West, 416-703-4400, artmetropole.com
Art Metropole’s old location on King West was an established magnet for shoppers hunting for books and multiples, but its new storefront at the corner of Dundas and Dufferin has already upped its visibility. It’s impossible to miss with its industrial shelving, vintage tables and picture rails full of creative zines, posters, pamphlets, editions, anthologies and more.
Looking to start collecting art on a student budget? Art Metropole stocks lots of multiples priced under $10.
Art Metropole picks: Flip through Learn To Read Art, by Lawrence Weiner, from an exhibition hosted with Printed Matter at the Basel Art Fair in 1991, $40 Judgment And Contemporary Art Criticism is a compilation of essays looking at recurring questions in contemporary art, $20 Nothing is for sale from the Jimmy Limit spring/summer 2012 catalogue, $40.
Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11 am to 6 pm.
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