Hello Volunteers! I hope you are all having a nice week. It has been so nice to chat with those of you that have been back in the gallery. Getting to know Gallery Guides and Info Guides alike! Thank you to everyone that tuned into our training session with Alexa Greist and Jim Shedden last […]

Ahead of her AGO talk and Smoke Sculpture™ set for Sugar Beach this June, AGOinsider connected with the trailblazing artist, educator and writer. This June, Toronto is in for a spectacle to be seen courtesy of Judy Chicago. In a much-anticipated return to the city, the renowned multi-hyphenate and champion of feminist art will transform […]

For the final week of Museum Month AGOinsider connected with first-time curator Tahnee Ann Macabali Pantig, who is making her debut with the AGO’s new exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art from Across the Spanish Empire.  Brooklyn-based artist and designer Tahnee Ann Macabali Pantig is digging deep into her Filipinx ancestry for her curatorial debut in the new […]

Dear Colleagues, What is happening? The AGO is poised to install a bold new sculpture by acclaimed contemporary artist Brian Jungen, after many years in development.  Site preparation will begin this week, and the sculpture will be installed in late June. This work is the AGO’s first-ever public art commission and will be situated at […]

Hello volunteers – In case you missed the live broadcast, Dr. Audrey Hudson’s conversation on How to Talk about Anti-Black Racism, a response to the continuing violence, and cross-border shooting in Buffalo last week, is now available online, to watch anytime, via the Gallery’s Youtube channel. See the link highlighted below. We encourage you to […]

Hello everyone, This past weekend there were three mass shootings in the US: one in Buffalo, one in Dallas, and one in Orange County. Hearing of targeted mass shootings is demoralizing. It is clear these acts were brought on by racism and hatred. Buffalo is quite literally our neighbour. The people murdered were our neighbours. […]

Many thanks to Melissa Smith for passing this volunteer opportunity along, through her work with Access. Full details below: The White Cane Week Experience Expo is a fantastic opportunity to not only make a great impact in our community, and a day to learn about living with vision loss, but also to meet new lifelong […]

Featuring lost-and-found home movies from the Prelinger Archives, alongside celebrated artworks by the likes of David Hockney, Patti Smith, Claes Oldenburg, Annie Pootoogook, Arthur Jafa and Mary Pratt, as well as snapshots, photo albums, letters, television, grocery lists, and social media, I AM HERE brings together a broad range of personal records from different time periods and […]

Hello Everyone, For the last few months, managers have been back on site for at least 3 days a week. It is really great to have so many of you back. We are in a much better place than we were in the winter – all provincial COVID health restrictions are now lifted, which means […]

For the second in our series of chats with curators for Museum Month, we sat down with the City of Toronto’s new Chief Curator to discuss a shared love of Robert Houle, the tyranny of the object and how museums can further social equity. It was a surprise and delight for residents of Toronto, when […]