Making sense of style
On view until October 9, Fashion Fictions at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores future fashion worlds
What to see at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2023
The GTA's all-night art party returns on September 23 with these can't-miss exhibitions
A Quickstop run with Tarralik Duffy
Multidisciplinary Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy talks about her solo show at the AGO.
2023 Toronto Book Awards Shortlist
Read the five books that made it to the top of the list this year
Le livreur et sa cliente, 22:53/ Delivery person and Client, 10:52 pm
Take a closer look at one of the first works documenting the COVID-19 pandemic in the AGO’s Collection.
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Rap horizons with Sydanie and Tamir
Two emerging MCs talk about the future of hip-hop – in Toronto and beyond
Six dance performances to see this fall
From Bharata Natyam to ballet, a new dance season begins this fall across Canada
Rosalie Favell on collaging identities
The Métis artist discusses using family photo albums to explore her identity
Honouring Angelika Hoerle
The AGO opens its Prints & Drawings vaults to mark Angelika Hoerle’s centenary
one man’s trash is another man’s trash
Soulpepper Theatre’s wardrobe team takes us behind the curtain with an upcycled textile installation
Otobong Nkanga makes the midnight zone visible
On view at the AGO, Unearthed - Midnight highlights the cost of deep-sea resource extraction
Alanis Obomsawin is listening
Acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker and activist on her new exhibition and why she can’t stop making art
Five films to see at CaribbeanTales
CaribbeanTales International Film Festival kicks off September 6.
Six films to see at TIFF 2023
The 48th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7 to 17
Wolfgang Tillmans’s Moon in Earthlight
Tillmans’s film alongside videos Instrument, Peas, and Book for Architects are on view at the AGO.
Through Nadya Kwandibens’s lens
Toronto’s newest Photo Laureate reflects on her aspirations for the role.
Queering St. Ives
Dr. Ian Massey discusses the St. Ives artist colony and what might have enticed Helen McNicoll
Feels Like Home Curator's Essay
Curator Emilie Croning reflects on the exhibition’s guiding question: what does “Home” mean to you?
Kelani Abass finds meaning in the archive
The Nigerian artist discusses his work on view at the AGO and the importance of archival photography.
the cartographer's mistake: the Radcliffe Line
Take a look at one of four works by Sarindar Dhaliwal to join the AGO Collection
All about chintz
ROM curator Sarah Fee discusses the floral-adorned textile as seen in Cassatt-McNicoll
Kehinde Wiley’s fallen figure
Wiley examines systemic violence against Black people at the de Young Museum of San Francisco
The power of words with Sarindar Dhaliwal
Dhaliwal writes about South Asian traditions and the concept of marriage in two short stories
Indo-Caribbean herstory at the Gardiner Museum
In her mixed-media ceramics-based exhibition, Heidi McKenzie enshrines collective memory
Sanctuary gardens
Paintings by Lagos-born, Toronto-based artist Emmanuel Osahor joined the AGO Collection in 2021.
An interview with Rae RezWell and Peter Owusu-Ansah
Two artists explain how their deafness informs their relationship to art as they reflect on Helen McNicoll
At The Japan Foundation, sports go from 3D to 2D
Enter the world of Japanese sports posters through the decades
Newfoundland & Labrador weddings through the ages
A new exhibition at The Rooms in St. John's highlights wedding keepsakes and the personal histories behind them
Astronomy lessons through Wolfgang Tillmans
A conversation with U of T Professor Suresh Sivanandam about the mechanics of stars and planets
Into the woods
Five Canadian outdoor theatre productions using nature to help set the scene this August
In conversation with Sarindar Dhaliwal
The South Asian Canadian artist reflects on childhood memories and 40 years of artmaking.
The Chinese Canadian Museum opens in Vancouver
The first of its kind in Canada, Vancouver is home to a new museum dedicated to Chinese Canadians
The legacy of Rumi at the Aga Khan Museum
The exhibition showcases historical and contemporary works inspired by the poet’s immortal words
Ian Kamau’s philosophy
Multi-disciplinary artist Ian Kamau reflects on his hip-hop beginnings in Toronto.
Volcanic interiors
A Q&A with acclaimed Icelandic artist Jónsi on his volcanic sound installation at the AGO.
Art of eruption
Inspired by Jónsi, we dug into the AGO Collection to see how other artists have depicted volcanoes.
A new monument lands in Brooklyn
Look up at Nicholas Galanin’s 30-foot-tall steel sculpture in New York City
Simply the best
Photojournalist Diane Liverpool reflects on photographing Tina Turner and Black press in the 1980s
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ART BASH! PRESS PLAY
Thursday September 28, 2023
Canada’s art party is back and this time we’re taking it to the streets in celebration of all things hype. Art Bash! is the AGO’s signature fundraising event - this can’t-miss annual gathering brings our community together to raise funds in support of the AGO.