Beyond what Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows is now on view at the AGO. We’re putting your Cohen knowledge to the test with a list of six things you may not know about the late Canadian icon.

Steaming into Impressionism

We chat with Jean-Paul Viaud, curator at the Canadian Railway Museum, to learn how steam travel transformed the way people moved across the map.

Leonard Cohen is here

Now on view at the AGO, the new landmark exhibition Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows explores the photographs, artworks, notebooks, video, and poetry of a legendary Canadian artist.

ICYMI: Volcanic interiors

In case you missed it in July, we spoke with acclaimed Icelandic artist Jónsi about his installation, Hrafntinna (Obsidian), that invites visitors to step inside a volcano - on view now at the AGO.  

ICYMI: Light shines out of darkness

In case you missed it, in November 2021 we spoke with Congolese, Montréal-based artist Moridja Kitenge Banza about his AGO exhibition Et La Lumière Fut (And There Was Light). Come check it out before it closes later this month. 

Survival instincts

Learn more about the research and life experience that inspired two monumental Denyse Thomasos works.

Stories told in the photographs

Ahead of their AGO talk on November 5, we spoke with author Sheila Murray and community archivist Evelyn Auchinvole about how one of Canada’s oldest Black congregations and the novel Finding Edward connect with What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life, on view now.

 

ICYMI: The importance of remembering

In honor of Holocaust Education Week in Toronto, revisit our 2018 story about the photographs of Lodz Ghetto.

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