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Cybéle Young, a Toronto sculptor who makes small Japanese paper constructions of everyday urban symbols, including T-shirts, fire hydrants, shoes, chairs and handbags--has come up with some playful titles for her pieces. In her solo show, "Toys that Linger," opening at Toronto's Prime Gallery on May 29, the artist (who makes most of her income from art fairs in the United States) is displaying these paper constructions as well as some small bronze sculptures that use the same iconography. Her fascination for all things little started as a child when she would build miniature farms with tiny tools. Today, her seven-year-old daughter Calder remains a huge inspiration. In fact, Young and her husband David named their child after the American sculptor Alexander Calder "more for his philosophy than his art," she explains.

This article comments on the "Massive Change" exhibit by Bruce Mau at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He leaps with athletic grace. Somehow this isn't a problem so much as it's the show's most attractive feature. Mau is a Toronto designer whose pop evangelism has bought him the kind of international notoriety you don't normally get if all you do is sketch chairs and toasters. As banners all over Vancouver scream in language that must already have Vancouverites' teeth on edge, Massive Change "isn't about the world of design, it's about the design of the world." Sometimes Mau lets his visitors into the ethical dilemmas technology poses.