What's On: Celebrating All AGO Members

View this email in your browser Exclusive AGO Members' Night On Thursday, July 18, we'll be staying open late – just for our Members!  All exhibitions will be open for Members to enjoy until 9 pm, including our major summer exhibition Brian Jungen Friendship Centre, along with Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER and more.  Membership has its benefits. Not a Member? Join today. LEARN MORE WHAT TO SEE Brian Jungen Friendship Centre Our major summer exhibition features a new work by Brian Jungen resembling a life-sized basketball court.  Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory Take a moment to slow down and contemplate the captivating beauty of Vija Celmins's delicate and subtle artworks. Valérie Blass: Le Parlement des invisibles 2017 Gershon Iskowitz Prize-winner Valérie Blass gives form to illusion in this new exhibition. Yayoi Kusama's INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER Experience Canada's first Infinity Mirrored Room. Now open to the public. DISCOVER ALL EXHIBITIONS ON NOW WHAT TO DO On Now until July 21 FOOD & DRINK | Summerlicious at AGO Bistro Friday, July 19, 6 pm WORKSHOPS | Art & Ideas: Drawing. Drinks. Social. Sunday, July 7, 11 am SPECIAL EVENTS | Public Opening - Sandra Brewster: BLUR SEE A FULL LIST OF EVENTS TALKS Wednesday, July 17, 7 pm Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys Join Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead in conversation with author Jael Richardson for the launch of his latest book, The Nickel Boys. In this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. BOOK NOW WHAT TO BOOK Wednesday, July 17, 7 pm PERFORMANCE | AGO Live: Kollwitz-Konnex... im Frieden Seiner Hände Join soprano Anne Harley and guitarist Steve Thachuk for the Canadian premiere of this powerful multifaceted song-cycle composed by Ralf Yusuf Gawlick in 2013. Tuesday, August 6, 10:30 am FAMILY EVENT | Strolling the Galleries Come explore our greatest hits with your little one! These relaxed one-hour tours allow for grown-up discussions, free of pressure, where no one minds a coo or a cry. SUMMER COURSES Sign up now! Thinking about taking a course this summer? It's not too late! A new session of AGO courses starts soon!  Courses and single-day workshops are offered for all ages and interests, including photography, painting, sculpture, and more. LEARN MORE WHAT'S NEXT October 12, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Early Rubens A revealing exhibition of works the Flemish painter master produced between 1609 and 1621, a crucial time that marks Rubens's rise to prominence on the world stage. Members' Previews: October 9, 10 & 11  Not a Member? Join Today! October 24, 2019 – February 23, 2020 Hito Steyerl: This is the future Enter the connected world of Hito Steyerl where fact, fiction, real and virtual collide. IMAGE CREDITS: [1] Brian Jungen, Friendship Centre sketch (detail), 2019. Watercolour on card, 45.7 x 61 cm. Courtesy of the artist © Brian Jungen.[2] Vija Celmins, Untitled (Ocean), 1977. Graphite on acrylic ground on paper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, bequest of Alfred M. Esberg © Vija Celmins, photo: Don Ross, courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [3] Lotte Jacobi, Portrait of Claire Bauroff, Berlin, around 1928; printed 1979. Gelatin silver print, Overall (sheet): 22.8 x 16.5 cm. Gift of Sandra Ball and Marcia Reid, 1987. © The University of New Hampshire. Used with Permission 87/335.1 [4] Yayoi Kusama. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, LED lighting system, monofilament, stainless steel balls and carpet, Installed: 312.4 × 624.8 × 622.9 cm. Purchased with funds from the David Yuile & Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund, Michelle Koerner & Kevin Doyle, Robert Dorrance & Gail Drummond, The Schulich Foundation, Soichiro & Junko Yamamoto, Diane Bald & Michael Budman, Don & Denyse Green, DH Gales Foundation, Maxine Granovsky Gluskin & Ira Gluskin, Barry Appleton & Magaly Bianchini, Emmanuelle Gattuso, Sheryle & David Saunders, Robin & David Young, Laura E. Baldini, Diana Billes, Edison Chai, Julian Chan & Yi Hyun Park, The Francis and Denise Connolly Family, Creeds, Eileen Farrow, Ivan Fecan & Sandra Faire, Hallisey Family, Victoria Jackman, Val Koziol, David Kozman & Kristin Blakely-Kozman, Charles & Jane Kucey Foundation, Jämes Lee & the Julie Institute, Chelsea Longaphy & Bernie Li, Martha LA McCain, Abby, Perry & Jordan Minuk, Carolyn D. Mullin, Samuel & Alice Peralta, In Memory of Pierrette & Abel Rancourt, Heather & Aaron Regent, Shevlen Family, Mary Sinclair, Jay Smith & Laura Rapp, J. Kenneth & Margaret Syer-Torrance, and the generosity of thousands of art lovers, 2018.  © Yayoi Kusama, Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice. Photo: Dan Bradica. 2018/28 [5] Valérie Blass, The Mime, the Model and the Dupe, 2019, acrylic gesso, paint, plaster, copper, empty chip bag, jumpsuit, resin, epoxy and fiberglass. Courtesy of the artist and Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. 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