This week, I would like to acknowledge a very special person, someone whom, sadly, we lost last Friday – Trustee Emeritus Carol Rapp, who passed away at age 89. Carol loved the AGO. She loved art, she loved artists, and she loved new ideas. Many of you knew her – she had been part of […]

Two of the featured artists in the exhibition We Are Story offer environmental insight. Since January 2023, the group exhibition We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition has been on view at the AGO (128, The Edmond G. Odette Family Gallery, and 129 The Robert & Cheryl McEwen Gallery), showcasing the vitality and range of contemporary Canadian photography. This […]

Hello Everyone, On Tuesday, I returned from two weeks’ vacation where we visited remote corners of the UK (Shetland Islands) and had lots of social time with family in English towns. It was wonderful and I needed the time to re-charge – having said that, I’m pleased to be back at the AGO, just in […]

The volunteer blog will be dormant for the next couple of weeks, for holidays! Please look to a return to posts the week of Monday July 17. In the meantime, make sure to keep with up with the most current news through Foyer, our new online magazine profiling the collection, exhibitions and general goings-on at […]

For the first time since 2019, we’re hosting AGO Summer Art Camp! Beginning on Tuesday July 4 and running throughout the summer, we look forward to welcoming almost 200 summer art camp volunteers, aged 15-18 years old, here at the Gallery. Please help us make them feel welcome in the volunteer lounge.

Writer, multidisciplinary artist and designer Tarralik Duffy’s work is a love letter to her hometown of Salliq, Nunavut. An intuitive connection to her Ancestors and a deep reverence for Inuit culture and tradition have informed her dynamic practice over the years – from jewellery making to large-scale soft sculpture. In her work, Duffy references objects […]

Hello everyone, I have not sent a message for the past couple of weeks as I have been travelling and meeting with members of the Bizot Group, which represents the directors of the top 40 or so global museums. The conference took place in three locations: Jakarta, Singapore and Sydney. Jakarta in particular is fascinating […]

Click the links here to read this week’s Foyer stories: Chevreuse II — June’s RBC Art Pick is Chevreuse II (1953-54), a colour and texture-rich painting by Quebec-born painter Jean Paul Riopelle. Curently on view in the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous + Canadian Art, this Art Pick dives into Riopelle’s “mosaic” painting technique and […]

Tracking the life narratives of Cassatt and McNicoll – two outstanding Impressionist painters For the first time ever, works of the two influential Impressionists, American Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and Canadian Helen McNicoll (1879-1915), have been placed side by side in a major exhibition. Cassatt – McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds draws upon the AGO’s significant collection of McNicoll works while […]

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