What's On: Brian Jungen Friendship Centre closes August 25

View this email in your browser CLOSING SOON Brian Jungen Friendship Centre Closes August 25 See it before it's gone! Don't miss your chance experience this remarkable exhibition featuring sculptures made from Air Jordans and a whale sculpture created using only patio chairs.  Admission is FREE for AGO Members, AGO Annual Pass Holders & Visitors 25 and under. SEE IT TODAY WHAT TO SEE Photography 1920s–1940s: Women in Focus Presented in collaboration with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Sandra Brewster: Blur A Canadian visual artist based in Toronto, Brewster explores layered experiences of identity. 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 Friday, August 16, 6 pm WORKSHOPS | Drawing. Drinks. Social. Saturday, August 17, 10 am WORKSHOPS | Painting Together: Watercolour in the Park – Ages 6–10 with an Adult Visit Today  FOOD & DRINK | Kids 5 and Under Eat Free at caféAGO  SEE A FULL LIST OF EVENTS GALLERY TOURS Included with admission Tours of the AGO Collection and current exhibitions Learn something new the next time you visit! Ten minute "On the Dot" pop-up art talks and one hour Gallery tours are both offered daily – and they're included with admission.  WHAT TO BOOK Friday, August 30, 6 pm WORKSHOPS | Writing Explorations: Photography 1920s–1940s: Women in Focus Workshop participants will be encouraged to reflect, write and share their impressions of selected artwork inspired by the exhibition, Photography, 1920s–1940s: Women in Focus.  Sunday, September 1, 11 am & 12:30 pm FAMILY EVENT | Flashlight Tours Take a family-focused flashlight tour in the Thomson Collection of Ship Models! Ages 3+ Tuesday, September 10, 7 pm TALKS | Billy-Ray Belcourt: NDN Coping Mechanisms Join writer Billy-Ray Belcourt in conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about his new genre-bending work, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field.   Wednesday , September 11, 7 pm TALKS | Valérie Blass Join artist Valérie Blass with AGO Curator Adelina Vlas for a conversation about Blass's conceptually and materially evocative sculpture.  Friday, September 13, 7 pm TALKS | Annahid Dashtgard: Breaking the Ocean Join author Annahid Dashtgard in conversation with Deviant Salesman, the AGO's Director, Public Programming, for the Canadian launch of Dashtgard's Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation. ART TORONTO OPENING NIGHT Thursday, October 24, 2019 Art Toronto Opening Night Art Toronto is Canada's leading international contemporary and modern art fair and one of the most important annual art events in the country. Art Toronto Opening Night is the not-to-be-missed kick-off benefit for the AGO.  BOOK NOW 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. Members' Previews: October 22 & 23 Not a Member? Join Today! February 22 – May 17, 2020 Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–1971 Honours our 2016 acquisition of the second largest collection of photographs by the renowned American photographer. February 22 – May 17, 2020 Illusions: The Art of Magic The Golden Age of Magic lives on through this sensational exhibition of rare posters, photographs, films and ephemera.    IMAGE CREDITS: [1] Brian Jungen Friendship Centre (detail), installation image, Art Gallery of Ontario © Brian Jungen. [2] 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. [3] Sandra Brewster, Blur 18, 2017. Photo-based gel transfer on archival paper,101.6 cm x 88.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects. © Sandra Brewster  [4] Installation view of 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. Image Art Gallery of Ontario. [5] 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  Add enews@ago.ca to your Safe Sender list Copyright © 2019 Art Gallery of Ontario, All rights reserved. You have shown interest in the AGO. 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