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What's On: Early Rubens - Members' Tickets Available Now!

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Early Rubens

Advance Member booking is on now! 

Opening on October 12, this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens's early works is not to be missed. Tickets are now available to book for AGO Members. Tickets will be available for Annual Pass holders and the general public starting September 27. 

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Join us at our exclusive Early Rubens Members' Previews on October 9, 10 & 11. Not a Member? Join 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.).
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WHAT TO DO

visitors looking at art in the gallery
Saturday, September 21, 1 – 4 pm

SHOP AGO | Artist Feature: Peggy McEwen


Friday, September 27, 6 pm

WORKSHOP | Writing Explorations


Friday, September 27, 6:30 pm 

FOOD & DRINK | Curated Dinner: September


Tuesday, October 1, 10:30 am 

FAMILY EVENT | Strolling the Galleries


Wednesday, October 2, 7 pm 

TALKS | Sandra Brewster and Canisia Lubrin in conversation

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WHAT TO BOOK

Friday, October 4, 10:30 am

WORKSHOPS | Expressive Drawing

Good mark-making are the basis of great art. Get physical on paper using your full arm extension to move pencil across paper while surrounded by large-scale works in the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre.
Friday, October 4, 7 pm

WORKSHOPS | Art and Ideas: Drawing. Drinks. Social

Learn to draw and enjoy a drink while doing it. Each class starts over drinks and conversation, then our artist-instructor leads you through drawing demonstrations and creative exercises that can deepen your understanding of art and the evolution of imagery.
Friday, October 4, 7 pm

TALKS | Daniel Arsham

Join multidisciplinary artist, architect and filmmaker Daniel Arsham for a conversation about his work and large-scale installation at City Hall for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2019.  
Saturday, October 5, 1 pm

WORKSHOPS | Sculpting Together: Exploring Henry Moore

Join us for our one-day family workshops where children with an adult caregiver will explore artists and artworks in our collection and get inspired to create back in the studio
Friday, October 11,  7 pm

TALKS | Curator's Talk: Early Rubens

Alexandra Suda, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada and Early Rubens co-curator, explores the life and work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). 
Saturday, October 12 & Sunday, October 13

PERFORMANCE | AGO Live: Songs of Heaven

Commissioned by the AGO and performed by the Choir of St. James Cathedral, under the direction of Robert Busiakliewicz, the program features the world premiere of three new choral pieces composed by leading Canadian musicians Owen Pallett, Cris Derksen and Matt Smith.
Thursday, October 24, 6:30 – 10 pm 

SPECIAL EVENT | Art Toronto Opening Night

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. 

6 DEGREES

Tuesday, September 24 & Wednesday, September 25 

6 Degrees Toronto

For the fourth year running, the Art Gallery of Ontario will play host to 6 Degrees Toronto. Presented by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, 6 Degrees drives a global conversation on citizenship and inclusion through three days of lectures, discussions and more.

AGO Members receive 25% off tickets* to 6 Degrees Toronto when using promotion code: 6DAGO. Tickets are available here.
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WHAT'S NEXT

Saturday, October 19 & Sunday, October 20

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE | ROM Reciprocal Exchange Weekend

AGO Members are invited to enjoy a weekend of exploration and discovery at the Royal Ontario Museum – for FREE!
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. 
June 27 – September 20, 2020

Picasso: Painting the Blue Period 

One of the most celebrated episodes of the artist's career and of 20th-century modernism. Co-organized by the AGO and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

 
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IMAGE CREDITS: [1] Peter Paul Rubens, Daniel in the Lions' Den, c. 1614 – 1616. Oil on canvas, Overall: 224.2 x 330.5 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1965.13.1. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington [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
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