February 8th, 2011
Matthew Teitelbaum, Director & CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, introduces you to the exhibition and the ideas being explored in the installation.
Paterson Ewen: Inspiration and Influence is on from February 8 to May 22, 2011
February 4th, 2011
By: David Wistow, Interpretive Planner
It’s not every day you can get inside an artist’s mind. In the Blackwood exhibition there are three short films, all included with admission. They really give you a sense of the man, his unique etching technique, and the rock and sea of Newfoundland that inspired him. The first film dates from 1976. (Blackwood still has black hair!). It concentrates on the artist’s amazing skills as an etcher. The second features an interview conducted by Blackwood’s fellow Newfoundlander, CBC celebrity Rex Murphy (2008) and talk of the tough life of sealers and fishermen. The third, produced by the AGO, documents the artist’s 2009 trip to Bonavista Bay and the Newfoundland of his youth. The footage is mouthwatering. It makes you want to go there.
Total running time on continuous loop: 55 minutes
Black Ice: David Blackwood Prints of Newfoundland, opens this Saturday February 5.
February 3rd, 2011
AGO Curator Katharine Lochnan introduces the special exhibition Black Ice: David Blackwood Prints of Newfoundland
December 17th, 2010
September 29th, 2010
September 7th, 2010
Julian Schnabel discusses the role of cinema in his life and the relationship between his filmmaking and painting processes.
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.
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.
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.
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.