Edgar Degas, L’orchestre de l’Opéra. Around 1870. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Step onstage and experience art inspired by the theatre in Drama & Desire: Artists and the Theatre. See masterworks by Degas, David, Toulouse-Lautrec. Delacroix and more – from the world’s greatest museums, including the Louvre, the Met, the Tate and the Musée d'Orsay.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Stage Props and Theatrical Effects
How to Install a Priceless Work of Art in 60 Seconds or Less!
Live Performances in Drama and Desire
CATALOGUE
Art and Theatre from the French Revolution to the First World War
This magnum opus, exploring the relationship between art and theatre during the "long" nineteenth century, accompanies an international exhibition traveling from Marseille to Rovereto, then Toronto.
Edited by Guy Cogeval and Beatrice Avanzi
Paperback 408 pages, 9.5 x 12 inches
IN THE NEWS
The Toronto Star: Lust and Murder at the AGO by Martin Knelman
Rogers TV: Katharine Lochnan talks Drama & Desire on Daytime Toronto
The Globe and Mail: The art gallery as theatre by James Adams
The National Post: AGO's Drama & Desire exhibit sees theatre invading the gallery by Mark Medley
The Toronto Star: Curtain rises on fine art by Richard Ouzounian
Supported by
The Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program /
Avec l'appui du ministère du Patrimoine canadien par le biais du Programme d'indemnisation pour les expositions intinérantes au Canada
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