AGO Archives of Murray Frum and William Withrow at the opening of African Majesty in 1981

Join us to see the ways art reveals and shapes the world in which we live. Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.

Join Al Stanton-Hagan, AGO Archivist, and Mariah Coulibaly, Research Assistant, Frum Collection, Arts of Global Africa & the Diaspora, as they explore changing attitudes about African art at the AGO and in the West through records from the AGO Archives. 

Web Archiving for Artists and Cultural Workers

Join librarians Sarah Lake and Hélène Brousseau from Concordia University for an online web archiving workshop.

Close Looking: The Jack Pollock fonds

Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.

Michael Snow: My Mother's Collection of Photographs

Join Michael Snow, Jean Gagnon and special guests for the launch of Snow's artist's book My Mother's Collection of Photographs.

Close Looking: A Book-Cover Design by Alice C. Morse

Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.

Close Looking: The Book of Job

Join Erin Rutherford, Collection Development Librarian, as she discusses The Book of Job (1902) from the Collection of the E. P. Taylor Library and Archives. This short talk will focus on the book’s fine binding, offer a glimpse into the life and work of its creator, Annie S. MacDonald, and speak to the handwritten treasures that accompany the title.

AGO Library X Tangled Art + Disability X Bodies In Translation Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Join the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives, Tangled Art + Disability, and Bodies in Translation for a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to increase Wikipedia content on disability arts and artists in Canada. This event will take place virtually, with the opportunity to connect in the virtual networking space Gather Town.

Close Looking: The View from the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1921

Join Marilyn Nazar, AGO Archivist, and Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, as they examine a set of snapshots in the AGO Archives that form a panoramic view from the front door of the newly-opened gallery building in 1921. We will take a close look at the photographic evidence and consider what it can tell us about the early gallery, the historic moment at which it emerged, and its place in our neighbourhood.

Close Looking: Canadian Wild Flowers

Join Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, as she discusses the AGO’s early editions of Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Wild Flowers (1868 and following) illustrated by Agnes Fitzgibbon. We will take a close look at some of the book’s remarkable illustrations and their history of production, and explore what it means to include illustrated books in an art museum collection.

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