Artist Moyra Davey will show and discuss her recent work in photography, writing and video.

Join renowned Mexico City based artist Melanie Smith for a talk about her recent work and current projects.

“...Perhaps the crown jewel of the AGO’s exhibit [is] a collection of photos from “Casa Susanna,” a secreted-away New York compound where men would come to cross-dress, to cavort, to photograph each other to give proof of an existence they knew was real but felt they had to suffocate in American society. ‘They needed to document the reality of their lived existence in order for that experience to be complete,’ said [York University professor Sarah] Parsons.

British artist Hurvin Anderson in conversation with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs Jeffrey Uslip. Anderson is best known for evocative paintings that engage with charged social histories and shifting notions of cultural identity. His depictions of Caribbean landscapes and urban barbershops explore themes of memory, place and the indelible connection between the two.

Melissa Levin (March 30, 1958 – October 27, 2015) was a passionate creator of LGBT video art, a committed advocate for queer youth, and the first facilitator of Inside Out’s Queer Youth Digital Video Project (now named New Visions) in 1999, and again in 2000, returning to facilitate the 10th anniversary Project in 2008. A talented multi-disciplinary artist, Levin made many short videos that screened at Inside Out over the past two decades as well as at festivals around the world and on television.

Based on the true story of a pioneering recipient of gender reassignment surgery, and on David Ebershoff’s book of the same name, Tom Hooper’s film features Copenhagen interiors carefully modelled on the paintings of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Painting Tranquility: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershøi

Join the AGO’s new Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO, in conversation with Sean O'Neill, AGO Associate Director, Adult Programming & Partnerships to hear about the experiences that led Stephan to the AGO, his perspectives on Toronto, and how he envisions the future of art museums in the 21st century.

Writer, musician, actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright, Steve Martin will join AGO Curator Andrew Hunter in conversation and explore the iconic paintings of Lawren S. Harris, his influence on 20th century art and the process of putting together the upcoming exhibition, The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris. The exhibition celebrates Harris as a leading modernist painter, an innovator on par with contemporaries Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

“There are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them”

Join Hunter, the AGO’s Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, to explore the Toronto of Lawren Harris, a city, in the 1910s as today, of great diversity and dense urban growth. Harris painted often in the Ward (St. John’s Ward), a downtown neighbourhood of deep significance to First Nations, the end of the Underground Railroad for many fugitive slaves, the city’s first Chinatown, and home to the immigrant poor of Europe and the United Kingdom.