Celebrate Thanksgiving at the AGO
Image courtesy of the AGO.
Early fall means pumpkins, trees changing colours, breaking out your favourite jacket - and Thanksgiving. The long weekend coming up not only gives you more time to gorge on turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and roasted vegetables, it's also giving you the perfect opportunity to walk off that feast and take in some amazing art at the AGO.
Normally closed on Mondays, the AGO is here for you to explore this upcoming Thanksgiving Monday (open from 10:30 am to 4 pm on October 9). For the rest of 2017, the AGO will be open for all holidays except for Christmas Day. For this coming Monday the AGO’s restaurant, AGO Bistro, will be open for lunch from 12 pm to 2:30 pm; caféAGO will be serving from 10 am to 3:30 pm; and shopAGO will be open during Gallery hours.
There is a ton of stuff to check out, including our newly opened exhibition Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters (if you’ve read the other stories in the AGOinsider this week, you can tell we’re kind of obsessed!).
Also make sure to see Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, a dynamic exhibition that marks Canada’s 150th birthday by critically exploring three urgent questions through the eyes of some of the country’s best emerging and established artists: where has Canada come from, what it is now, and where is it going? It aims to address the mistakes of the past, rewrite and reclaim history, and move into the future with new insight. Also on hand for holiday art-goers is ReBlink, an innovative augmented reality experience that taps into the power of leading-edge technology to give visitors the chance to see works from the AGO’s Canadian and European Collections through a 21st century lens.
Be sure to catch Mark Lewis: Canada, which features three new large-scale videos from one of Canada’s most prominent artists now working in photography and moving images. In these new works Lewis found inspiration in various places, from the ice skating rink at Nathan Phillips Square to a snowstorm at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library to Algonquin Park in the winter.
The recently opened AIMIA AGO Photography Prize exhibition is now showing on the 5th floor of the AGO’s Contemporary Tower with images from four outstanding international artists all vying for the prize of $50,000 CAD - decided by your vote! Make sure to check out their incredible works and to cast your digital ballot in the exhibition.
If you haven’t already, you can also catch up on all the pieces from the AGO Collection that have been re-installed this past year as part of Look:Forward, the AGO’s ambitious reinstallation project. We are now roughly halfway through, so it’s a great time to catch up on all the newly re-installed galleries including the Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Sculpture Atrium, E.R. Wood Gallery, Margaret Eaton Gallery, Marvin Gelber Gallery, the Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery and more!
Be sure to clear your Monday schedule: a whole day’s worth (or just an hour) of holiday me time awaits you at the AGO.
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