Hello everyone,

Sometimes I focus my weekly message on major activities like big exhibitions or the large expansion underway.

Other times I attempt to point out the details that help make the AGO a magical and wonderful place:

– I love seeing young campers enter the museum in the morning and be greeted by summer staff and volunteers. The camps are so full of creativity and joy.

– I enjoyed viewing large portraits of women, one by Emily Carr and one by Augustus Edwin John (of The Marchesa Casati), next to one another in the Margaret Eaton Gallery. 

– The new presentation of Canadian and European paintings in the John & Nancy Mulvihill Gallery is beautiful.

– The espresso bar in the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Sculpture Atrium is busy (and Linda Coslovi, our CFOO, tells me that it is making money).

– The gallery floors are sparkling and clean.

– The Theaster Gates installation on the 5th Floor inspires visitors of all ages to dance.

Take care,

Stephan