CITY OF ABSTRACTS
What you need to know: The brainchild of New York choreographer William Forsythe and his jet-setting Forsythe Company, whose aim is to extend dance to areas of technology, visual art and architecture.
How to recognize it: A wandering truck with a camera and video screen, which displays digitally distorted images of passersby.
How to approach it: With glee and abandon. The point is to create your own dance by moving along with the screen’s manipulations.
What to tell your friends: Seems fun, but local interactive installation artist David Rokeby has been doing similar work for years—and with more intellectual menace.

MILLE FEMMES
What you need to know: Part of a worldwide photographic series launched in 1993 by French artist Pierre Maraval, who describes his works as “human landscapes.”
How to recognize it: A thousand headshots of artistically inclined Toronto women, hung in Brookfield Place’s Allan Lambert Galleria on Bay Street.
How to approach it: With an appreciation for the big picture as well as the little one. Who’s in the exhibit is important, but so are such things as age, style and ethnicity.
What to tell your friends: Kind of like a Dove ad featuring Olivia Chow, Valerie Pringle and Erica Ehm.

STREETSCAPE
What you need to know: Presented by the Art Gallery of Ontario and local collective Manifesto.
How to recognize it: Graffiti, murals and multi­media installations by some of the field’s biggest names; set up at several spots, including Brookfield Place, Jarvis Street Slip, Parliament Street Slip and Regent Park.
How to approach it: With an open mind. StreetScape is about the power of graffiti to beautify the city.
What to tell your friends: It’s events like this that could unearth our very own Keith Haring or Banksy. Much more aesthetically appealing than those “Give graffiti the brush-off” ads.