Julian Schnabel: Art and Film (Video)
September 7th, 2010
Julian Schnabel discusses the role of cinema in his life and the relationship between his filmmaking and painting processes.
Opera Atelier at the AGO: Degas and his Dancers (Video)
July 30th, 2010
Dancers from Toronto’s Opera Atelier demonstrate ballet technique in the time of French painter Edgar Degas as part of the exhibition Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre.
Drama & Desire features dramatic moments and live animations inside the exhibition. On select weekend afternoons throughout the summer, dancers from Opera Atelier’s Artists of the Atelier Ballet will perform Degas and his Dancers, and actors from the Canadian Stage TD Dream in High Park will perform scenes from Romeo and Juliet. For the full schedule click here.
Drama and Desire: All the AGO’s a Stage (Video)
July 28th, 2010
Paintings come alive! Young actor Alex Dault regularly recites Shakespeare excerpts in the exhibition Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre.
Drama & Desire features dramatic moments and live animations inside the exhibition. Each week, actor Alex Dault will deliver key soliloquies from Shakespearean classics. For the full schedule click here.
Katharine Lochnan talks Drama & Desire on Daytime Toronto (Video)
June 2nd, 2010
Katharine Lochnan, the AGO’s Deputy Director of Research and The R. Fraser Elliott Curator of Prints and Drawings chats with Rogers TV’s Daytime Toronto host Myrocia Watamaniuk about the innovative presentation of Drama & Desire: Artists and the Theatre, the AGO’ major summer exhibition, opening June 19 and on view through September 26.
ArtSpeak: Emerging Artists Series (Video)
June 2nd, 2010
Jennifer Bhogal speaks with Tien Huang, Director, Bau-Xi Gallery, Christine Swiderski, Exhibition Coordinator, OCAD Student Gallery, and Michael Adamson, Artist, about what you need to know to stay on top of the rising stars in the art market. Recorded Saturday, March 20th 2010 at the AGO Art Rental + Sales Gallery.
From Vogue to Vogue-ing: A Steichen-Inspired Vogue Battle (Video)
May 17th, 2010
From the pages of fashion magazines, a new form of cultural expression left forth: VOGUE-ING! The AGO Youth Council hosts a Vogue dance off inspired by the photography of Edward Steichen. Recorded January 27, 2010.
Steve Nash and Julian Schnabel (Video)
May 12th, 2010
Canadian basketball superstar Steve Nash has generously lent a painting from his collection to the AGO. Now this just isn’t any old painting, it’s a commissioned portrait of Steve’s twin daughters Bella and Lola. And it (of course), isn’t by just any old artist, but his friend Vito’s father, Julian Schnabel. Check out this video to hear Steve and Julian talk about the day the painting was painted, and what it was like trying to paint 2 very active 3 year olds. It was installed at the AGO in late April, and you can find it in Gallery 123.
Also, since the NBA playoffs are on right now (and the Raptors are out), we’d just like to say – go Suns! Steve is playing amazing basketball right now, don’t you think?
And oh yes, we’re opening a major Julian Schnabel exhibition on September 1, 2010.
Barbara Kruger Installation Video
May 7th, 2010
Hat-tip to AGO-neighbor Jerry Mcintosh for his inspired video of the Barbara Kruger installation, created using his Blackberry and posted on Youtube:
“In partnership with Toronto’s CONTACT Photography Festival, the Art Gallery of Ontario commissioned renowned American artist Barbara Kruger to create a large-scale public installation for the AGOs signature glass skirt, which spans an entire city block on the Frank Gehry designed facade. My office is located directly across the street from the AGO and I used my Blackberry to capture these images in a reflection and tribute to Kruger’s work.”
– Jerry Mcintosh