Art in the Spotlight: Visualizing Freedom Dreams

Join celebrated historian Robin D.G. Kelley (USA), whose book Freedom Dreams explores the Black radical imagination, in conversation with renowned artists John Akomfrah (UK/Ghana) creator of Vertigo Sea—a stunning meditation on the whaling industry, the slave trade and the current migrant crisis—and Bushra Junaid (Canada), whose Two Pretty Girls... brings to life the entanglements between Newfoundland and the legacies of plantation.

Art in the Spotlight: Koomuatuk Curley

Join sculptor, director and videographer Koomuatuk (Kuzy) Curley in conversation about his recent projects with Georgiana Uhlyarik, AGO Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art.

A Continued Conversation on Residential Schools


We want to honour and remember the 215 children of the Kamloops Residential School (Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nations community) who now peacefully rest in the spirit world. We acknowledge the resilience of Residential School Survivors, their families and all those who are still missing and have never made it home.

Art in the Spotlight: Nordic Lab

Join artist, curator, and director of The Nordic Lab Taqralik Partridge for a conversation with artists Tarralik Duffy, Geronimo Inutiq and Barry Pottle about their recent work.

Art in the Spotlight: Shuvinai Ashoona

Join artist Shuvinai Ashoona in conversation with Wanda Nanibush, the AGO’s Curator, Indigenous Art, for a conversation about her work and the exhibition Shuvinai Ashoona: Beyond the Visible.

Hot Takes: Dylan McKeever and Pearl Teese

Using close looking skills and visual vernacular, Hot Takes is an analysis of popular images in the media where we invite creatives, artists and thinkers to discuss one image and decipher and better understand our current cultural and social moment. This week join Dylan McKeever and Pearl Teese as they discuss and unpack Trans representation.

Art in the Spotlight: Talking Queer Photography

For the 25th anniversary of the CONTACT Photography Festival, Gallery TPW and Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies present We Buy Gold, an exhibition featuring ten emerging LGBTQ photographers living and working in Canada.

Join guest curator and Toronto Photo Laureate Michèle Pearson Clarke for a conversation with Sophie Hackett, AGO Curator, Photography, artists Jess T. Dugan and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and artist and curator Ka-Man Tse about these and other queer photographic practices.

Close Looking: Arthur Shilling - Self Portrait

Join curator Renée van der Avoird for a close look at Arthur Shilling’s Self-Portrait (c.1972-1977), recently acquired by the AGO. Luminous and expressive, the painting is a statement of agency that embodies the artist’s dedication to claiming his own identity as an act of sovereignty rather than one of assimilation. Shilling’s signature bold colours, reminiscent of the Woodland School, are a forceful manifestation of Anishinaabe presence.

Beginner Vogue Workshops

Want to learn how to vogue dance from the legendary vogue pioneer Twysted? These beginner-level workshops will cover the five elements of vogue fem, ending each week with a ball. Kiki’s Lounge encourages anyone who wants their first voguing experience to participate.

What Do We Think About Andy?

If you could be any Warhol superstar, who would you be? Has anyone ever called your work Warlohian, and if so, did you consider it a compliment?

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