The AGO is hosting a free digital screening of the powerful short film It Can Be Anything, which features a young artist’s inspiring journey. “It can be anything” is the open-ended, all-encompassing mantra offered by artist Rachel Doucette as a description of her work. Doucette’s abstract drawings and inspiring journey as a creative person are […]

Hello Everyone, Earlier this week, we shared a message about Ontario’s Re-Opening Plan. Basically what this means for the AGO is that we will open likely later in July with Andy Warhol installed and ready for our public. The exact date is not known yet – it all depends on the speed of vaccinations and […]

Conservation science reveals the true colours and dynamism of one of Canada’s leading, but too long forgotten, modernist painters. Among the first artists in Canada to experiment with abstraction, Kathleen Munn was active in Toronto in the 1920s and ’30s; she was considered by some as one of the most advanced, if confounding, artists of […]

Hello Everyone, It’s the long weekend so I’m going to keep this short. Yesterday the province announced its re-opening plan. In terms of what this means for the AGO, Leadership Team will be assessing the 3-part plan for the next few days. I will be back in touch next week with more details. Basically, the […]

Hello volunteers, Though we don’t share all staffing announcements, we know Christy will be familiar to many of you, given her appearance at Town Halls, and in guiding our exhibition program. Such exciting news for Christy! A fresh start; we will miss her at the AGO – Holly Hello everyone, I’m writing to share the […]

For a second year in a row, the Volunteer Council (VC) and the AGO Development team are excited to present the Volunteers of the AGO with the opportunity to select a gallery project to financially support using funds from the Volunteer Endowment Trust (VET). The Volunteer Endowment Trust (VET) was established in 2001 with a […]

Join our AGO Volunteers Connector Call:  Wednesday May 26, 5-6:30pm. This call is taking the form of a discussion group around our latest Diversity & Inclusion Learning session: Anishinaabe Philosophy and Land, linked on the blog (see previous post) A quick reminder: you can’t pre-register for this discussion. Simply log on at 5:00pm on Wednesday May 26 […]

June is Pride Month, and in the latest AGO Hot Takes, trans representation takes centre stage via the insights of drag performer Pearl Teese and comedian Dylan McKeever. Hot Takes is an AGO series that invites various creatives, artists and thinkers to meet via Zoom and collectively analyze contemporary images in the media, as a […]

Hello Everyone, Dr. Julie Crooks is looking forward to presenting the upcoming exhibition Fragments of Epic Memory. It is a bold exhibition that draws on the AGO’s Montgomery Collection of Caribbean photography as well as contemporary art from the Caribbean Diaspora. It will be a beautiful and groundbreaking exhibition, opening in September. I know an […]

Shifting Time and Place: Luke Parnell examines transformative narratives within Northwest Coast Indigenous art. Learn about his series of thought-provoking paintings, recently acquired. Luke Parnell’s artistic practice plays amidst notions of past, present and future. He’s primarily concerned with investigating oral histories and contemporary iterations within Northwest Coast Indigenous art. Raised on the western coast […]