Meet a new generation of diverse Canadian artists with Inner Space, an original AGO web series where artists give personal tours of their studios. Get up close and personal with 12 emerging Canadian artists by tuning in to the AGO’s new original web series, Inner Space. Available at the end of every month, each episode […]

Blurred Boundaries: Queer Visions in Canadian Art (opens April 9) A new installation of 13 works from the AGO Collection explores queer connections to liberation, resistance and creativity: Blurred Boundaries: Queer Visions in Canadian Art features a select 13 works, all pulled from the AGO Collection, by the likes of General Idea, Will Munro and […]

Hello volunteers – from time-to-time we share volunteer postings with our community! Here’s a great opportunity to support Luminato. See details, below! – Holly Potential Luminato volunteers can learn more about the benefits of joining the growing Festival team at: https://luminatofestival.com/support/volunteer/  Deadline to Apply: April 28, 2022. If you have any further questions, please reach out […]

Hello Everyone, This week, while a crew is busy installing I am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces at the AGO, there are two international exhibitions on view connected to the AGO: Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956-1971 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, where Sophie Hackett attended the opening; and the Whitney Museum […]

We know volunteers love checking out the new work in the Toronto Biennial of Art. Building on 2019’s theme of Waterways, What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, the second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art opened on March 26, welcoming 37 artists, local and international, to nine different sites across the city.   Biennial sites […]

Our Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora Department strengthens its collection with two paintings by Lagos-born, Toronto-based artist Emmanuel Osahor, on view on Level 4. With many of us itching to spend more time outdoors and tend to our gardens, it’s undeniable: spring is in the air. On Level 4 of the AGO, two […]

Sculptures about statues: spoke with London-based contemporary artist Thomas J Price about his nine-foot bronze cast sculpture outside the AGO, and his take on the meaning of monuments. Since July, the corner of Dundas and McCaul Streets outside the Jackman Hall entrance has been home to Within the Folds (Dialogue 1) – an original nine-foot […]

Tuesday March 29, 4pm via Zoom Join Julie Crooks, AGO Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, and catalogue contributors Christian Campbell, Emily Cluett, Dominique Fontaine, Andil Gosine, O’Neil Lawrence, Annie Paul, Marsha Pearce, Harclyde Walcott and Mary Wells for a conversation celebrating the publication,  Fragments of Epic Memory. This critical volume includes works by Caribbean artists […]

Voting closes March 31, 2022. Get your vote in! We are excited to share this year’s projects for funding consideration through the Volunteer Endowment Trust 2022-2023. As part of the Volunteer Council’s (VC) ongoing mission to demonstrate transparency in our decision making, Volunteer President Maya Kotlarenko has once again created an online voting process for the volunteer […]

Many of you will remember Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry, a much loved exhibition back in 2017, the first major exhibition of her work in North America in 20 years, and the first ever in Canada. Art Historian Barbara Bloemink has written a new biography and the author is interviewed in this week’s AGOinsider, linked here.