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Painted portrait of woman in ankle length dress and matching hat, holding fan

Laura Wheeler Waring, After Sunday Service, 1940. Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 36.8 cm. Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. PFF231. Image courtesy of the Petrucci Family Foundation.

Sunday Best

Opening October 7, 2026

Located on Level 5 

Exclusive Members' Access*: Oct 7 – Oct 9, 2026
Members' & Annual Passholder Access: starting 5 pm on Oct 9–12, 2026
Public Access: Oct 13, 2026

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Spotlighting the power of Black style, Sunday Best traces the histories of migration, activism, self-determination, and fashion design, woven into the enduring ritual of dressing in one's “best” clothing. Told through displays of fashion, visual art, ephemera, and time-based media, this expansive exhibition considers the use of style and self-fashioning in Black diasporic communities, from the 1880s to the present.

Making its world debut in Toronto, Sunday Best is conceived and curated by Dr. Julie Crooks (Curator, Arts of Global Africa & the Diaspora, AGO) and Dr. Jason Cyrus (Associate Lecturer, London College of Fashion), with Amanda Bock (The Lynne and Harold Honickman Assistant Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Art Museum), and Clare Sauro (Cara Keegan Fry Curator at the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection at Drexel University). The exhibition design is in consultation with U.K.-based JA Projects architecture and design firm.

Sunday Best is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

 

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