The evening features a conversation between artists Barbara Astman and Christopher Wahl, moderated by Sophie Hackett, the AGO’s assistant curator of photography.  The program will explore Astman and Wahl’s work and how it is shaped by and responds to portraiture in the context of contemporary photography.

In conjunction with the exhibition Light My Fire: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography

Join us for an evening with the four extraordinary artists shortlisted for the 2013 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize: Edgardo Aragón, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Chino Otsuka and Erin Shirreff. The artists will appear in conversation with nominators Jennif

"Even if you didn't know Eva, you'd know more about her than you realized from looking at her work. Because you've been connected somehow. That's one of the beautiful things about her work is that it does really reach out and make a connection." - Lucy Lippard

Convocation Hall, University of Toronto

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt

Catherine Yvard with Sasha Suda

Join the Courtauld Institute’s Catherine Yvard and AGO associate curator of European Art for a short introduction to the Gothic Ivories Project. Launched at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London under the direction of Prof. John Lowden with the generous support of Thomson Works of Art, it is an online catalogue of Gothic and Neo-Gothic sculptures from public and private collections around the world. 3800 objects are now accessible to all, illustrated with over 10,000 images.

The height of the Raj coincided with the advent of photography.

Roberta Shaw, former Assistant Curator of Egyptology, Royal Ontario Museum

The people who lived in ancient Egypt were as absorbed in personal adornment as the fashionistas of today. A remarkable archaeological record of their clothing, cosmetics and, above all, their fabulous jewelry allows us to recreate their high fashion"looks" over some three millennia. Roberta Shaw will discuss all the accoutrements that went into producing their idea of perfect personal beauty.

Cloud engineering from the perspective of plankton

In this presentation, Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas would like to tell several stories:

• how works of artists, circumstances and entire countries fall together to make literature depart from the linear to enter the planar 

• how photography quits the plane to enter space and sculpture steps into the fourth dimension becoming a visitor 

Join Alain de Botton and John Armstrong as they talk about Art As Therapy - a new book and a series of exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Rijksmuseum, and the National Gallery of Victoria that reframe and recontextualize art works from across the ages and genres, so that they can be approached as tools for the resolution of difficult issues in individual life. Authors Alain de Botton and John Armstrong will discuss the origins of the project, as well as the works they have included in Art as Therapy from the AGO’s collection.

9 to 5 was an exhibition that let visitors experience art in an unexpected way: by interacting with the artists while they make it! Running from April 27th to the 29th, 9 to 5 transformed one gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario(AGO) into a live office space. For three days, contemporary Canadian artists Anitra Hamilton, Graeme Patterson and Ed Pien welcomed AGO visitors to meet with them and enjoy a conversation about their artistic practice.