What's On: Join us at our Members’ Night on September 10

PLUS Brian Jungen closes August 25

View this email in your browser Exclusive Members' Night On Tuesday, September 10, we'll be staying open late – just for our Members! All exhibitions will be open for Members to enjoy until 9 pm. PLUS enjoy a 30% discount at AGO Bistro, join us for wine and tapas in Galleria Italia, experience drop-in artmaking fun in Walker Court and much more.  LEARN MORE BRIAN JUNGEN FRIENDSHIP CENTRE Closes August 25 Final weekend! Don't miss your last chance to 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. Mail Art, Break the Rules: The Shit Must Stop Portfolio  Two vastly different projects from the 1960s: Ten Works by Ten Painters (X + X) and three of the six issues of Shit Must Stop (S.M.S.). DISCOVER ALL EXHIBITIONS ON NOW WHAT TO DO Friday, August 30, 6 pm WORKSHOPS | Writing Explorations: Photography 1920s–1940s: Women in Focus Sunday, September 1, 11 am & 12:30 pm FAMILY EVENT | Flashlight Tours Sunday, September 3, 10 am  FAMILY EVENT | Strolling the Galleries Visit Today  FOOD & DRINK | Kids 5 and Under Eat Free at caféAGO  SEE A FULL LIST OF EVENTS WHAT TO BOOK 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 Devyani Saltzman, the AGO's Director, Public Programming, for the Canadian launch of Dashtgard's Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation. Tuesday, September 10 - 15 MEMBERS' EXCLUSIVE | Members' Appreciation Week at the AGO Bistro Join us for our AGO Members' Appreciation Week from September 10 - 15 when you and a guest can enjoy 30%* off our delicious lunch, dinner or brunch menus.  Wednesday September 18, 7 pm TALKS | Close Encounters: Kathleen Munn, Beneath the Surface Join curator Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, and Conservation Fellow Stephanie Barnes for an exclusive viewing of select Munn works from the AGO Collection. FALL COURSES Fall Courses now on Sale! Whether you've never picked up a paintbrush, or you've studied art for years, the AGO has a course for you. Learn more about our fall course offerings below! BOOK TODAY 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] Irving Petlin, Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton from SMS Portfolio No. 1, Cover; offset colour lithography on folded paper cardstock. Gift of the Trier-Fodor Foundation, 1989, 89/34.1 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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