Murray Laufer: Eight to Eighty Book Signing
September 8th, 2010
Please join us at shopAGO on October 16, 1pm-3pm for a book signing by Murray Laufer.
Over 50 years, the constant thread in Murray’s work has been the making of intimate portraits – both drawings and prints – which have about them the shared qualities of the carefully observed and the deeply felt. After a decades-long punctuation in his art-making as an acclaimed theatre designer, Laufer finally turned to his own studio to realize intimate works on paper and three-dimensional paintings that deal with issues of personal communion and the astonishing, celebratory fragility of human life.
This book is a multi-authored narrative of Murray Laufer’s achievements as an artist in all the ways his work took form. Texts by AGO curators David Moos and Katharine Lochnan, with contributions by Peter C. Wylde, Av Isaacs, Leon Major, and Murray himself combine to chart the chronology of his work and his life.
We are grateful to the Dalglish Family Foundation for their generous support of Murray Laufer: Eight to Eighty.
Perfect Snow Book Signing
December 2nd, 2009
Join us in shop AGO on December 5th at 2pm. Plasticine artist/children’s author Barbara Reid will be reading and signing copies of her delightful new book Perfect Snow.
Barbara Reid is an acclaimed Canadian author and illustrator, who won the CBA Libris Award’s Children’s Author and Illustrator of the year in 2007. Creator of such favourites as: Sing a Song of Mother Goose, Read Me a Book, and The Subway Mouse, Barbara Reid is adored by children, parents and teachers alike.
Holiday Toys for Tuts!
November 13th, 2009
When you come to the AGO¹s King Tut exhibition, or just when you come to the AGO, visit shopAGO and meet Tutty Bear. Drop off a new, unwrapped gift for needy kids (or buy one at the shop to donate) and get 10% off your shopAGO purchase that day. In partnership with CTV¹s Toy Mountain, all toys will be distributed by the Salvation Army.