Hello volunteers! I’ve heard folks have had some difficulty understanding access and pricing for the Keith Haring show, so I reached out to our Visitor Welcome team with some questions, which they have clarified below. Hope this helps! – Holly Only Annual Passholders and Members can visit Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody. This show […]

Hello volunteers, We’re postponing our November 21 in-person workshop. Thanks so much for your understanding. Our workshop (online), that is scheduled for Tuesday November 28, from 5:30pm – 7:30pm will continue as planned. Hold tight for details! With appreciation, Holly (volunteer resources)

Think back with us a few months, AGO volunteers – to when you were asked to cast your vote to support a project for this year’s Volunteer Endowment Trust fund donation. You voted to support Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, an exhibition and accompanying (gorgeous!) catalogue, edited by Alexa, […]

Hello everyone, This week marked the opening of another significant fall exhibition – Keith Haring: Art is for Everyone. There has been a tremendous amount of effort on the part of pretty much everybody to launch a successful fall season of exhibitions and programs. And you’ve done it. I would especially like to thank Georgiana […]

Hello everyone, Sometimes when one sees the world in chaos, it is good to focus on the tangible. This week, with so much pain in the world – which does impact us here at the AGO – I saw new glass railings on the east and west side of the building. I visited the installation […]

As the Gallery prepares for the opening of Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody on November 8,we are excited to invite staff and volunteers to preview the exhibition.   The Staff and Volunteer Exhibition Preview will take place on Tuesday, November 7 from 3 pm to 5 pm on Level 4 of the Gallery. Staff […]

We are happy to share this link for Shelagh Barrington, Gallery Guide and National Docent Symposium Council Chair for Canada. Please see details, below: Discover how The Walters Art Museum Docent Corps (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) examined and updated their touring tools and approach to make all visitors feel more welcome. Learn how they used the […]

Think back with us a few months, AGO volunteers – to when you were asked to cast your vote to support a project for this year’s Volunteer Endowment Trust fund donation. You voted to support Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, an exhibition and accompanying (gorgeous!) catalogue, edited by Alexa, […]

KAWS cut his teeth as a graffiti artist in the 1990s, “bombing” through the streets of Jersey City, then New York City with graffiti legends like Zephyr. He then graduated to guerilla-style public art interventions, painting his famed iconography and characters directly over top of corporate billboards and phone booth ads. After being introduced to […]

Gallery Guide Shelagh Barrington has been travelling through India, and shares the story of an artist’s work she first saw at the AGO back in 2007 … The National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, India   I first saw Subodh Gupta‘s work at the 2007 AGO exhibition Hungry god: Indian contemporary art (linked HERE).  Other […]