For the last month, a new group exhibition at Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery has explored and questioned the subjectivity of historical narratives.

Summer is here and the sun is beaming. To help you pass the time during your cool-down sessions, we created a round-up of art and culture stories to get your fix on exciting happenings around the world.

British-Trinidadian sculptural artist Zak Ové takes his artistic cues from the traditions of his ancestors. While documenting the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival as a young filmmaker in the 1990s, he became enthralled by the festival’s emancipatory pageantry, and began creating art inspired by it.

We’re saddened to learn about the recent passing of David Blackwood (1941–2022), a celebrated Canadian artist and longtime friend of the AGO. Blackwood is perhaps best known for his prints featuring Newfoundland – drawing particular inspiration from childhood memories, oral histories and human struggles for survival. Throughout his acclaimed career, Blackwood remained loyal to Newfoundland, depicting its landscapes, seascapes and mythology with visceral sensitivity.

Engage in nostalgia through PANORAMA (2022), a video installation on view now as part of I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces at the AGO: it features a compilation of home movie footage from the Prelinger Archives set to the backdrop of a lo-fi

Artist Stan Douglas is renowned in Canada and internationally for his films, videos, photographs, cinematic installations and more that explore modernism and watershed moments throughout history.

The work of San Diego-based contemporary artist Andrea Chung was added to the AGO Collection last year and was first placed on view as part of the landmark exhibition, Fragments of Epic Memory. The work, Litany for Survival (2019), is currently back on view at the AGO, this time alongside a selection of works from Chung’s Colostrum series – a dynamic group of seven mixed media collage works exploring the history of Black women’s breast milk.

On July 16, acclaimed Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) artist – and winner of the 2021 Sobey Award – ᓛᒃᑯᓗᒃ Laakkuluk is unveiling her brand new multimedia installation, which incorporates video, soundscape and sculpture.

In preparation for the landmark exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire, the AGO reached out to a group of Filipinx and Latinx artists and cultural workers across the Greater Toronto Area in order to build community partnerships.

Nigerian-Canadian contemporary artist Oluseye Ogunlesi spent three years collecting shattered and discarded side-view mirrors from cars. For him, they are a metaphorical representation of Africans who were sold into slavery in exchange for mirrors during the Trans Atlantic slave trade.