Hello Everyone, Since our re-opening two months ago, I have been very impressed with our Visitor Welcome staff and the ways they have pivoted to provide a welcoming and safe point-of-entrance for our visitors, especially those who are working the lines outside of the front doors. They are simply providing a wonderful and positive atmosphere […]

Hello everyone, I have to say, the quality of extraordinary content on view right now at the AGO is truly amazing. Having Warhol, Wong and Fragments of Epic Memory installed at the same time is literally an art feast for our public. I love it! Congratulations to Julian and the curatorial team. Congratulations also to […]

We were happy to see many of you on last night’s zoom call, celebrating the opening of Fragments of Epic Memory, with Stephan and Curator, Julie Crooks. Below, you’ll find a photo that our friends in Development snapped earlier last year, when the Volunteer Council met to officially “sign off” on the Volunteer Endowment Trust […]

Hello Everyone, Earlier this week, I visited the Fragments of Epic Memory installation on the 5th floor. Congratulations to Dr. Julie Crooks and everyone involved, it is a very special exhibition. The picture below is of an art work by Sandra Brewster, commissioned by the AGO. It is indicative of the originality and quality of […]

Dear Colleagues, It is bittersweet to announce that after 10 years, Caitlin Coull is leaving the AGO for an exciting opportunity at ROM Governors as Associate Vice President, Communications and Marketing. While I will miss Caitlin (a lot), I’m thrilled for her as she moves on to this next step in her career. Over the […]

Dear Volunteers, In 2020, for the first time ever, all volunteers of the AGO had an opportunity to vote on a gallery project to support with funds from the Volunteer Endowment Trust (VET). You chose to support research into the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs, and it’s resulting exhibition. This September, the first exhibit organized […]

Dear Colleagues, Back in March, I announced the appointment of Xiaoyu Weng as the AGO’s Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art. After navigating the twists and turns of the pandemic as well as US/Canada border restrictions, I am delighted to say that Xiaoyu has finally arrived in Toronto. She starts in her […]

Hello everyone, I am back from a Saskatoon-to-Vancouver family road trip with stops in Calgary, Banff and Jasper. Western Canada is stunning and vast – I think I said “wow” about a million times. Each place was so strikingly different – I feel like I have a better sense of the complexity of Canada. I […]

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 […]