Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power is a series of 21 audio addresses by artists assuming positions of leadership. AGOinsider spoke to Constance Hockaday, the project’s creator, about imagining futures that speak to all.  Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power is an ambitious art project presented by the Blackwood, University of Toronto Mississauga, that asks how we can imagine […]

Journey through the mythical scenes and curious creatures in Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawings, now on view in Shuvinai Ashoona: Beyond the Visible. Born in 1961 in Kinngait, Nunavut (formerly known as Cape Dorset), Ashoona has been making art for more than 25 years. Like other self-taught Inuit artists living in Kinngait, she learned through observation and […]

Two great talks to accompany the Andy Warhol exhibition are coming up this week. Links to register, below! Blake Gopnik on Andy Warhol Tuesday August 10 at 7pm, via Zoom (register, here) Join esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik for a conversation with author and journalist Kate Taylor about his definitive biography of Andy Warhol. In […]

Matthew Wong: Blue View opens at the AGO August 13. Ahead of the exhibition, AGOinsider shares the trajectory of this Toronto-born artist’s career and his deeply personal meditations on the mood and colour blue. What is the colour of solitude? For self-taught painter Matthew Wong, blue seems to be the answer. Matthew Wong:Blue View is […]

Dear Volunteers, Thank you all for your patience while we re-opened the Gallery and Andy Warhol for Members’ and Annual Passholders! We are excited to provide volunteers with visiting access, a first step in our re-opening plan. In order to continue to having safe operations on site, all tickets, (including those for staff and volunteers) […]

Hello Everyone, We are closing in on our second week of re-opening. It is incredibly gratifying to walk through the galleries and see employees in person, some whom I have not seen in many months. And it is simply wonderful to have our public back in the building. Things are going very well and ticket […]

Kinngait Studios in Nunavut has been at the forefront of contemporary Inuit art for more than 60 years. We talked to William Huffman of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative about what makes it so successful. Five successive generations of acclaimed Inuit artists have brought their work to life at Kinngait Studios, in Kinngait, Nunavut, some […]

How do you preserve art made from rotting fruits and vegetables? Sjoukje van der Laan, AGO Assistant Conservator, Contemporary Art, and Interpretive Planner Nadia Abraham answered this question with Ron Benner’s installation Anthro-Apologies (And the trees grew inwards – for Manuel Scorza)(1979–80) in a recent Close Looking talk. Acquired by the AGO in 1994, Anthro-Apologies […]

Hello Everyone, We made it! The AGO is open again for our public and I couldn’t be more proud. It has been wonderful to see so many familiar faces this week that I have not seen for eight months. We are off to a great start with strong interest and attendance and a very safe […]

Black through bronze Internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Thomas J. Price makes his AGO debut with a towering public sculpture that centres the Black experience Last summer’s global uprisings for Black lives sparked a wave of public awareness and inspired widespread calls for social change. Since then, protests resulting in toppled colonial statues have been commonplace […]