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 […]

Two great talks to accompany the Andy Warhol exhibition are coming up this week. Links to register, below! Blake Gopnik on Andy Warhol Tuesday August 10 at 7pm, via Zoom (register, here) Join esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik for a conversation with author and journalist Kate Taylor about his definitive biography of Andy Warhol. In […]

Matthew Wong: Blue View opens at the AGO August 13. Ahead of the exhibition, AGOinsider shares the trajectory of this Toronto-born artist’s career and his deeply personal meditations on the mood and colour blue. What is the colour of solitude? For self-taught painter Matthew Wong, blue seems to be the answer. Matthew Wong:Blue View is […]

Dear Volunteers, Thank you all for your patience while we re-opened the Gallery and Andy Warhol for Members’ and Annual Passholders! We are excited to provide volunteers with visiting access, a first step in our re-opening plan. In order to continue to having safe operations on site, all tickets, (including those for staff and volunteers) […]

Hello Everyone, We are closing in on our second week of re-opening. It is incredibly gratifying to walk through the galleries and see employees in person, some whom I have not seen in many months. And it is simply wonderful to have our public back in the building. Things are going very well and ticket […]