The landmark AGO exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire consists of 200 works of art from Latin America, the Philippines and Spain made between

The time is now to experience Blurred Boundaries: Queer Visions in Canadian Art, on view on Level 2 of the AGO until September 25.

Witness and follow the 6,000-mile (9,656 kilometers) transnational migratory journey of a single monarch butterfly across the Americas through an interactive digital artwork by artist Reynier Leyva Novo titled Methuselah. 

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.

Since late June, AGO visitors have been witnessing the challenging and thought-provoking artworks of Death and Furniture – the debut AGO solo exhibition by acclaimed Canadian artist Ken Lum.

An exhibition on view now at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario begins with a question: where were you 30 years ago? 

The backdrop for internationally acclaimed Canadian visual artist Sheila Pye’s very first film, The Young Arsonists, is a coming-of-age story that explores themes of adolescence, emotional trauma and friendship in the face of abuse, poverty and death.

What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life, an impactful exhibition showcasing a collection of images of African-American family life, opened at the AGO August 27.

In 2012, Toronto resident and Colombian native Jess Sanchez had an impactful encounter that would change the course of her life. While in a small Colombian town, she purchased traditional beaded jewellery from two Indigenous women of Embera Chami descent.

From the pen of Dionne Brand, one of Canada’s most acclaimed writers, comes a newly published collection of poems titled Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems.