EYE BUY ART’s Ottawa pop-up gallery is the city’s latest that is constantly changing the ways emerging artists from all over the country connect to new audiences. Visit the pop-up at Sussex Contemporary.

Jim Davies is the Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory. He’s spent his career exploring why we find things compelling, from art to religion and from sports to superstition. Apt613 asked him to share his findings on the appeal of art.

Helen Lam: “On fight nights, an ecosystem grows around the action in the Thai boxing ring. The hall is a controlled chaos governed by the ebbs and flows of events on the roped platform.”

If you want to catch a glimpse of how we’ll live, work and travel in the not-so-far-away future, head down to Lansdowne Park this weekend.

Ottawa photographer Tony Fouhse’s exhibition SUBURB, the final part of his hometown trilogy, debuts at the Exposure Gallery September 8. His latest series of photographs feature scenes of everyday life in Barrhaven, where residents live, work and play.

The National Gallery of Canada’s foray to Canada Scene is Our Masterpieces, Our Stories, a visual art exhibition on from June 15 to September 4. It is a sweeping look backwards at the breadth of Canadian art from “time immemorial” to 1967. With a bird’s eye view of Canadian art through the centuries, this exhibit is a good starter before you delve into other visual art exhibits this summer.

Helen Lam: “Rough Magic is unlike any other show at the festival. Opening night was almost a full house at the largest venue, and I suspect this unique experience will be enough to draw large audiences for the rest of the run.”

Helen Lam: “The production weaves live music, video and puppetry together to tell a rich story.”

Helen Lam: “Randy Ross’s solo show contains a catalogue of sexual misadventure that would rival any Reddit thread.”

In the heart of Little Italy, Wreck MMA held an amateur Thai boxing night at St. Anthony’s Banquet Hall on June 2.