AGO acquires 17 new works by 10 artists at Art Toronto

Celebrating its highest attendance to date, Art Toronto makes its triumphant in-person return.

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.

 

Globetrotting for canvases

We spoke to two Chicago-based retirees on an epic journey to see the works in the book 1001 Paintings to See Before You Die.

About Time

Contemporary artist Jin-me Yoon’s solo recent works exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents her significant artworks from the last decade.

ICYMI: The importance of remembering

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

In their eyes

A new exhibition with 16 works by seven artists spanning seven decades, Her Flesh considers the feminine gaze on women’s own flesh.

What matters most to you?

See what our visitors wrote on our cards in the AGO exhibition What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life.

ICYMI: Bronzing a monster

In case you missed it in July, we spoke to Matt Ryle, a project manager at Walla Walla Foundry, about the intricacies of casting artist Brian Jungen’s massive public artwork, Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill, in bronze.

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