Cinematic travels to the Caribbean

CaribbeanTales International Film Festival celebrates its 16th year this September. Take a look at some of the must-watch films at this year’s festival.

ICYMI: Ivorian moments

Important Ivorian documentary photographer Paul Kodjo has recently passed away. In celebration of his life, check out our story from January 2021 about his powerful work and legacy.

Silver Clouds of dissent

Since 1966 Andy Warhol's floating installation Silver Clouds has been captivating gallery-goers. But it left some artists, like Donald Judd, cold. Curator Kenneth Brummel takes us back in time to learn what was so provoking about a pillow. 

Silver sheen

For the next entry in our Material Explorations series, we look at the lustrous history of the ever-present, ever-precious metal, silver.

Humble beginnings

Before he was a world-famous artistic and cultural icon, Andrew Warhola (Andy Warhol) started life as a humble working class kid in depression-era Pittsburgh.

A public exercise in leadership

Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power is a series of 21 audio addresses by artists assuming positions of leadership. We spoke to Constance Hockaday, the project’s creator, about imagining futures that speak to all. 

A different take on The Deluge

Kent Monkman reimagines a classic story in his painting The Deluge, on display at the AGO until February 2022.

Questions and answers

How can we admire European art while acknowledging the colonial systems that produced it? European Art on First Nations Land, a new ongoing exhibition at the AGO, investigates this with select European and Indigenous works from the Collection.

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