Is it Art?

Butterfly bonanza: A colourful contrast to the muted tones of a Montreal winter is the Botanical Gardens’ (4101 Sherbrooke E.) strange and beautiful Papillons en liberté exhibit. For the next month the Gardens’ main greenhouse will host hundreds of free-flying butterflies and their caterpillar predecessors. Making the Gardens their home for March will be the amusingly named piano keys and sinister-sounding cobra moths, among many others, all flitting around fruit trees and landing on people’s faces. The show runs through April 1; for info call 872-1400. :

–Mark Slutsky