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Kahlil Joseph and the Black rodeo

The African American filmmaker’s poetic love letter to Grayson, Oklahoma, is on view now at the AGO

The sacred house of Theaster Gates

On view now at the AGO, Progress Palace is the American artist’s ode to house music

Interesting Story

Feel the comfort of childhood in Laura Muntz Lyall’s dreamy depiction of children lost in a storybook

Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [Infected]

The multi-disciplinary artist’s massive panoramic video installation is on view now as part of Bright Signs.

Sarah Sze’s Disappearing Act

Learn more about Sarah Sze’s encyclopedic sculpture and how it teeters on the edge of transition.

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A still from Taus Makhacheva's video work Tightrope. It features the Russian tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov walking across a tightrope on the mountainside with a painting in his hands

Conserving Bright Signs with Claire Molgat Laurin

The AGO’s Time-Based Media Assistant Conservator speaks on preserving video works in the exhibition

Sonia Boyce, 2024. Photo: Craig Boyko / AGO.

Feeling Her Way with Sonia Boyce

The acclaimed British artist continues her Canadian solo debut tour at the AGO

Art to write home about

The AGO to feature David Blackwood, Yayoi Kusama, Jesse Mockrin and Joyce Wieland in 2025

This miniature watercolour portrait on ivory by Mary Wrinch features a women sitter from the chest upwards. She is wearing a light blue top and a large black hat with yellow flowers. The hat is tied to her chin with a yellow ribbon

Mary Wrinch’s miniature portraits at Art Windsor-Essex

AWE adds new additions to the AGO’s exhibition of miniature portraits on ivory by Mary Wrinch

Portrait of a Woman with a Lap Dog

This RBC Art Pick is one of Rembrandt’s most beloved late portraits

A young woman wearing a long white dress sits a table. She is slumped in her seat. Sitting beside her is a young man wearing a black suit.

Swiping right with art

The AGO presents Awkward First Date Tours where art does the icebreaking for you

Three moments in Modernism

Bush, Ohtake, and Rauschenberg: get to know the work of these artists on view now at the AGO.

The layers of Che Lovelace

The Trinidadian artist’s vibrant painting, The Gun, is on view now at the AGO

Houses, Richmond Street

A visitor favourite by Lawren S. Harris captures a familiar fall scene in Toronto

illustrative graphic of a art rate monitor line with text saying :"The Art Rate Monitor"

Meet the Art Rate Monitor

Wearable tech meets great art at the AGO with a new visitor experience on now

Jinny Yu on the guest/host dynamic

The acclaimed artist discusses the colours and shapes of her debut AGO solo exhibition

Low Tide

Learn more about the rigorous geometry behind Alex Colville’s summer scene on the water

Painting by Mark Rothko with white, red and grey hazy blocks on black background

Rothko’s strokes of white and red

Mark Rothko’s painting No.1, White and Red on view again at the AGO after more than a decade

An image of David Ruben Piqtoukun's sculpture People of the Midnight Sun. It features a stone carved face with words carved into it, framed by a red metal circle. The statue stands on two metal blue legs that arch outwards.

David Ruben Piqtoukun ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ and the midnight sun

The Inuvialuk sculptor reimagines the midnight sun as an ode to the Inuit

An image of Jinny Yu's Inextricably Ours 23-08. It features geometric squares in various shades of red and orange

Jinny Yu and quantum physics

Catch Jinny Yu live in conversation at the AGO with physicist Shohini Ghose and art historian Ming Tiampo

Still from watercolour video game Été (2024)

Video game arts play on

Toronto artist Jim Munroe on bringing indie video games back to the AGO

Composite image of same Jan Kupecky painting in 2 different frames

Framing for the future

Assistant Conservator Julia Campbell-Such brings the AGO’s collection of historical frames into the light

Black and white photograph of three people seated at lunch

Art meets brunch

A hearty helping of brunch-inspired art to whet the appetite before Brunch Club launches this fall

An image of Evan Penny's production plasters

Five hidden gems at the AGO

Tucked away in nooks and crannies, here are a few works to find on your next visit

oil on canvas of small boy blowing bubbles through a straw wearing a hat

Paul Peel's summer reveries

Ontario–born painter’s bucolic portraits of children blend rigour and sentiment

The next generation of leaders in the arts

Charlotte Big Canoe, AGO Program Curator, Family and Studio Learning, Indigenous Projects, shares insights about the AGO initiative developing skills for young leaders ages 14 and 15.

Q&A: Brian Porter, Principal, Two Row Architect

In this new series, we introduce the team behind the Dani Reiss Modern & Contemporary Gallery.

An image of Favell's painting I awoke to find my spirit had returned, which features the artist imagined as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, under a Hudson Bay blanket with Louis Riel in the window and her dog on the bed as Toto

Rosalie Favell’s take on The Wizard of Oz

Learn more about how the artist explores her Métis heritage by reimagining of The Wizard of Oz

Tony Ann performs at the AGO

The pianist performs an original composition and discusses his creative process

Portrait of architect Annabelle Selldorf

Q&A with Annabelle Selldorf, Principal, Selldorf Architects

In this continuing series, we introduce the team behind the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery.

An image of Alex Janvier's painting Untitled (1973)

Remembering Alex Janvier

The renowned Denesųłiné artist revolutionized the possibilities of abstraction

Portrait of Don Schmitt on Toronto street

Q&A with Don Schmitt, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects

In this continuing series, we introduce the team behind the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery.

Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill is here

Learn more about the AGO’s first-ever public art commission by Brian Jungen.

Installation view: Tarralik Duffy: Let's Go Quickstop, June 2023 - Ongoing

A Quickstop run with Tarralik Duffy

Multidisciplinary Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy talks about her solo show at the AGO.

Shadowy painting of a scholar behind a stack of books dim lighting

Painted Presence

Co-curators Adam Harris Levine and Suzanne van de Meerendonk discuss what makes a Rembrandt

Unlocking the majesty of Zak Ové’s Moko Jumbie

British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové describes Moko Jumbie on view in Galleria Italia at the AGO

A group of sculptures featuring KAWS characters

Meet the KAWS family

Get to know the cast of characters that form the KAWS family, as seen in his AGO exhibition

In conversation with KAWS

The Brooklyn-based artist discusses his AGO exhibition, KAWS: FAMILY

KAWS: FAMILY, Art Gallery of Ontario Jonty Wilde

KAWS through five mediums

Paintings, graffiti, sculptures and sneakers, here are five mediums in KAWS's iconic art practice

The cover of the KAWS: Family exhibition cover

Perspectives

Before KAWS, there was Brian Donnelly

Read about the origins of KAWS in this excerpt from the AGO exhibition catalogue

KAWS in collaboration

Fashion, furniture and food—get to know some of KAWS’s popular brand and artist collaborations

Mindbender and the infinite love of hip-hop

The veteran rapper and champion of Toronto hip-hop shares his eclectic journey of love, music and community.

Bronze statue of two male nude figures holding torches

Castor and Pollux

In honour of the XXXIII Olympiad, we turn our eyes to this homage to youthful athleticism from the AGO’s European Collection

A black and white photo of artist Sharl G. Smith in front of one her beaded sculptures

Beading invisible bonds with Sharl G. Smith

The artist speaks on the necessity of “invisible” bonds for both her sculptures and for society

Blue painting with black lines forming grid-like pattern in the centre

Kazuo Nakamura’s Inner Structures

Dissect Nakamura’s love for science and abstraction in his most celebrated works, Inner Structures

Jeremy Rodney-Hall, The Hair Appointment, 2018.

Jeremy Rodney-Hall on The Hair Appointment

The Toronto-based photographer speaks about the loving intimacy of Black haircare

Photo of violinist Cristina Zacharias performing

Presenting Making Herself Heard

Cristina Zacharias of Tafelmusik talks Baroque music, women musicians, and performing at the AGO on June 28

Freedom and folklore

Take a closer look at Zak Ové’s Moko Jumbie, on view now at the AGO.

painting of a woman artist drawing a landscape in a sketchbook

Portrait of an Artist Drawing a Landscape in her Sketchbook

Amélie Legrand de Saint-Aubin’s portrait of a fashionable sitter captures attention in Making Her Mark

Summer views with J.E.H. MacDonald

Explore scenic works by Group of Seven’s J.E.H. MacDonald from the AGO’s Collection of Canadian Art

woodcut print of woman dragging children forward

Embracing Käthe Kollwitz

The German artist familiar to AGO audiences gets a star turn in a new MoMA retrospective

A watercolour painting of a macaw perched on a tree branch