Just Announced! Looking Ahead

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Hello Volunteers! We’ve got an exciting Fall lined up! Opening Soon: Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond (October 8 – Annual Passholders and Public), and Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows (December 13):

Denyse Thomasos. Maiden Flight, 2010. acrylic on canvas, Overall: 152.4 × 182.9 cm. Gift of Gabrielle Israelievitch in memory of her beloved husband Jacques, 2018. © Denyse Thomasos Estate and Olga Korper Gallery. 2018/5
Leonard Cohen, Self-Portrait, circa 1972 @ Leonard Cohen Family Trust

And in the long-view, there’s lots to look forward to, with these 2023 exhibitions just announced (via AGOinsider):

Wolfgang Tillmans: To Look Without Fear Opens Spring 2023

Icestorm (2001). Image courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, New York / Hong Kong, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne, Maureen Paley, London

Influential German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) has made his mark with photographs that range from intimate observations of his daily life – be they banal, joyful, melancholy, erotic – to incisive commentary on the shape of our world today. Driven by playfulness as well as his social consciousness, Tillmans advocates for a visual democracy, declaring: ““if one thing matters, everything matters.”

Featuring more than 300 hundred portraits, landscapes and abstract, chemical experimentations, installed in a loosely chronological fashion, this momentous exhibition, the first of his work in Canada, reveals the full range of Tillmans’s creative output to date, including photographs; video projections; sound installations; and tabletop presentations of documents and ephemera.

Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear is organized by The Museum of Modern Art.

Cassatt-McNicoll: Women Impressionists Opens June 2023

Left: Mary Cassatt, On a Balcony, c. 1878–79. Oil on canvas, 89.9 x 65.2 cm. Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of her aunt, Delia Spencer Field. 1938.18. Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago. Right: Helen Galloway McNicoll, Picking Flowers, c. 1912. Oil on canvas, Unframed: 94 x 78.8 cm. Gift of R. Fraser Elliott, Toronto, in memory of Betty Ann Elliott, 1992. Art Gallery of Ontario. 92/102.

This groundbreaking exhibition brings together for the first time the work of two pioneering women Impressionist painters, Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) and Helen McNicoll (Canadian, 1879-1915).  Renowned for their depictions of modern womanhood, their work had a profound impact on the development and proliferation of Impressionism in North America.

Curated by Caroline Shields, Associate Curator and Head of European Art at the AGO, and showcasing more than 65 artworks including paintings, pastels, prints and sketch books, this innovative exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.

Arnold Newman Opens Summer 2023

Arnold Newman. Georgia O’Keeffe, 1968. gelatin silver print, Overall: 61 x 50.8 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Anonymous Gift, 2012. © Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images (2022). 2015/3973

American photographer Arnold Newman (1918–2006) created some of the most recognizable portraits of the 20th century. In his photographs, the artistic and intellectual lives of many of the most famous artists, composers, actors, and political figures of the post WWII era, come alive, with power and mystery.  

Featuring more than 150 images highlighting his breadth as an artist, the exhibition includes a selection of portraits, including those of renowned artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Henry Moore, and Pablo Picasso, alongside landscapes, abstract compositions, and collages. Seen together, these images – many commissioned for leading magazines – reflect Newman’s significant impact on American visual culture.  

The exhibition is curated by Sophie Hackett, Curator of Photography.