Hello Everyone, The new photography installation is up in the Edmond G. Odette Family Gallery. Please take a moment to visit the space. This was a huge effort on the part of Sophie Hackett in addition to many others, including Logistics & Art Services staff: Brian Davis, Doug Moore, Tina Giovinazzo, Jelena Sisko, Jason Laudadio, […]

We hope you find these Staff Spotlights a great way to get to know your colleagues! This month, meet Paul Ayers, Coordinator, Information Guide Volunteers, Visitor Experience Department. What do you do at the AGO? I coordinate the Information Guide volunteers – the 100+ volunteers who greet our visitors, assist them with way-finding and provide […]

Meet an AGO volunteer who has been donating her time for 37 years, and hear why. Plus – find out who is earning rave reviews at this year’s Venice Biennale, who is nominated for the Turner Prize, and who inspired FRANK restaurant’s new Mabel’s Bubbles cocktail – all in this week’s AGOinsider. If you haven’t […]

Throughout the Look:Forward project, we’ll be keeping you in the loop with regular updates so you know when galleries are closing and re-opening. Now Closed: • E.R. Wood Gallery (121). In order to prepare E.R. Wood Gallery for reinstallation, Logistics and Art Services dismantled the formidable DeCrayer ‘Saint Benedict receiving Totila, King of the Ostrogoths‘ […]

Hello Everyone, Check out the newly redesigned website ago.ca– it is amazing! Congratulations to Mark McKay and his team. This new visitor-focused website is much easier to navigate, beautiful and engaging. I am looking forward to seeing the website continue to evolve. Have you visited shopAGO lately? It is fresh, light-filled, and inviting. In recent […]

As some of the AGO’s own Picassos reappear in our galleries, we’re reminded of our first Canadian Picasso retrospective in 1964. Plus – find out about the exciting season of films coming to Jackman Hall, get some ideas for Mother’s Day, see some pictures from Massive Party, and more – all in this week’s AGOinsider. […]

Welcome to the working group EMILIA–AMALIA, who begins its Artist-in-Residency at the Gallery today. Toronto-based EMILIA-AMALIA was initiated by Cecilia Berkovic, Yaniya Lee, Annie MacDonell, Gabrielle Moser, Zinnia Naqvi, Leila Timmins, and cheyanne turions. The three-month residency will explore the relationships between artists, curators and writers with related activities, including the production of a set […]

Throughout the Look:Forward project we’ll be keeping you in the loop with regular updates so you know when galleries are closing and re-opening. Now Open: Edmond G. Odette Family Gallery (128) – See stunning photographs from the 1840s to the 1880s, including works by Linnaeus Tripe, Jacques-Philippe Potteau and more. Now Closed:  E.R. Wood Gallery […]

Hello Everyone, So this week has been a bit of a good news/bad news kind of week. The bad news: Late last Thursday, we found out that the province has cut $500,000 in its 2017-2018 operating funding to the AGO (we receive $21 million/year). This is  an unwelcome surprise, particularly since we have already started […]

Find out how the discovery of a forgotten trunk helped create Free Black North, the AGO’s latest photography exhibition. Plus find out how you can participate in this fall’s Creative Time Summit, learn more about Maylee Todd’s Virtual Womb, and more – all in this week’s AGOinsider. Sign up here to subscribe to our e-newsletters and enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at […]