Hello Everyone, This year as we acknowledge the AGO’s 125th anniversary there are other significant milestones to note. For example, opening in November, Collective Visions celebrates 25 years of photography at the AGO. And next week, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Curators’ Circle, the AGO’s community of our most avid and generous annual donors. A […]

For many of us, September signifies the start of something new; and here in the volunteer program, we are excited to announce that volunteer Ellen Miller begins her term as Volunteer Representative to the AGO Board of Trustees. In this role, Ellen and her fellow board members (27 voting trustees and up to two ex-officio, […]

Hello Everyone, This summer we have had healthy attendance. I really enjoy seeing people visiting us from all over the globe. Usually, our attendance is strongly linked to our exhibition schedule but this summer much of the visitor patterns reflect global political changes. It looks like we have had more Canadian and European visitors than […]

Hello Everyone, About 20 years ago, when I became the director of a very small museum in Oakland, California, above the door was an inscription in Latin that read, “Ars longa, vita brevis”: Art is long, life is short. It suggests that great art can transcend time and last for a long time, while human […]

Curator and writer Ray Cronin on how Colville made the ordinary profound Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, from Toronto to São Paulo, painters began rejecting figuration and perspective, embracing colour, scale and line, in pursuit of a more expressive and immediate experience. Exploring this impulse is the current exhibition Moments in Modernism, a unique conversation between artists […]

The AGO Library & Archives will be closing for annual collections maintenance starting today, Monday, August 18, until Friday, August 29. Library & Archives will resume regular service on Tuesday, September 2.   Questions? Please contact Adrienne Connelly, Access Services Librarian at [email protected] The Library & Archives team looks forward to welcoming you in September!

Our next Volunteer outing August 22nd 11:00am  Hello Volunteers! Hope you’re all well and enjoying the summer, albeit hot months! I’m delighted to announce our next Volunteer gathering will be a visit to the multi-disciplinary artist Michelle Peraza private studio, to meet her in person and take in her art. Most grateful for her generous […]

Opening Saturday August 9, a new exhibition at the Gallery brings together a selection of rarely seen sculptures by Toronto artists Frances Loring (1887–1968) and Florence Wyle (1881–1968).   Deer Panel (c. 1939-1941) will be exhibited for the first time since 1944 as part of the AGO exhibition Remade: Clay, Plaster, Stone.  (2nd Floor, Gallery 238) EXHIBITION OVERVIEWToronto artists Frances Loring […]

The Henry Moore Centre, Murray Frum Gallery, and Irina Moore West and East Galleries will be closed on Friday, August 8, from 6 am to 1 pm as EllisDon will be lifting the new Air Handling units for the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery (DRMCG) into position in the new building. Staff, volunteers, and […]

Hello Again, I was looking at my photos from the past week and I wanted to share three of them before signing off. On Wednesday, the community welcomed Thomas J Price’s sculpture Moments Contained (2022) to Toronto. Performances by singer Shakura S’Aida and a gospel choir led by Kiara Picart created a celebratory atmosphere for hundreds of […]