Art Gallery of Ontario

George Elliott Clarke on Emily Carr's The Trees in the Sky

Lynn Crosbie on Augustus John’s Marchesa Casati

Daniel David Moses on Manasie Akpaliapik’s Respecting the Circle

Souvankham Thammavongsa on Agnes Martin’s Untitled #10

Roberta Shaw will discuss all the accoutrements that went into producing the idea of perfect personal beauty for the people who lived in ancient Egypt.

Meet artist Giuseppe Penone and enjoy a captivating talk on how his artwork unsettles the boundaries between art and nature, and signals the interdependence of all organic life forms.

The secrets and symbolism of Canada’s most famous art group come to light in a lecture by bestselling author Ross King.

John Ralston Saul argues that it is critical that we recognize the influence aboriginal ideas have had on Canada in order to rethink its future. His talk explores these ideas and develops them in the context of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s 2009 reinstallation of the Canadian Art collection.

El Anatsui has gained widespread international acclaim in recent years for his dazzling metallic tapestries made from liquor bottle tops. Listen to El Anatsui talk about his work.

Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, Ontario poet Barry Dempster created and presents a new poem in response to a painting by Paterson Ewen from the AGO’s collection.

Mark Haworth-Booth discusses the issue of photography and truth, ranging from the mid nineteenth century era of Roger Fenton and Camille Silvy to 9/11 and the G20 demonstrations in London, in 2009.

Toronto musician and composer Ennio Paola takes us into the Dada arts scene of post World War I Germany, relating the musical compositions of Erwin Schulhoff to visual artist Angelika Hoerle.

Angie Littlefield talks about Angelika’s connections to the feminist issues of her time. Hear more about how the “New Woman,” as she was then called, was politically and intellectually engaged, sported a bold short haircut called the bob and was increasingly self-sufficient.

Guest curator Angie Littlefield, Angelika Hoerle’s grand-niece, explores the tumultuous relationship between Angelika and her husband Heinrich Hoerle, who would become one of the Cologne Progressives.

Dennis Reid presents new research that suggests that one of Canada’s most popular nineteenth century painters was, actually, gay.

Curator Angelika Litlefield talks about the works of her great aunt Angelika Hoerle whose short life blazed across the Cologne arts scene.

In his new book, "Opening Gambits", cultural critic and philosopher Mark Kingwell puts forth an argument for the similarity between art and philosophy as forms of play, working at the margins of meaning and sense.

MoMA curator Starr Figura will talk about Freud’s etching practice, emphasizing the cross-pollinating relationship between his work in etching and in painting.

Kara Walker talks about her work which challenges traditional concepts of race and narratives of enslavement and oppression.

Join Brenda Rix, assistant curator of Prints and Drawings at the AGO, for a talk highlighting some of Hunt’s marketing strategies to make his images and message accessible to the widest possible audience.

Gerald McMaster, AGO curator of Canadian Art, will discuss the new approach to the Canadian galleries in the transformed AGO.

This talk by Holman Hunt scholar Carol Jacobi presents the artist’s life and inspirations as well as the development of his approach to art.

The AGO invited University of Toronto Professor of Architecture Larry Richards to wander the perimeter of the AGO and muse on the final phases of its Frank Gehry-designed expansion.

Dr. Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford will discuss some of the issues connected to delivering culturally diverse art in 21st-century London.

Louie Palu, Globe and Mail photojournalist; Rannie Turingan, photo blogger; and John Reeves, renowned Canadian photographer, discussed the "Ansel Adams | Alfred Eisenstaedt" exhibition, the evolution of photojournalism, the transition of photojournalism into an artform and the potential impact of new technologies in the field.