Synopsis
The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto is one of North America's leading art collections. Come visit and experience more than 4,000 artworks across 110 galleries. Visit http://ago.ca
Episodes
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Hurvin Anderson - Artist Talk
06/06/2016 Duration: 01h03minBritish artist Hurvin Anderson in conversation with Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs Jeffrey Uslip.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier – Artist Talk
06/06/2016 Duration: 01h23minFrazier considers the work, legacy and influence of artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks and his contemporaries.
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Valéria Piccoli - On Alexander von Humboldt (1)
28/05/2015 Duration: 05minCo-curator Valéria Piccoli shares her thoughts on Alexander von Humboldt's theories in the visual arts in the Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra Del Fuego to the Arctic exhibition.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time Symposium (2)
26/03/2015 Duration: 01h26minPanelists Karen Miranda Augustine, Fab 5 Freddy, Dana Michel, and Christian Campbell explore the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time Symposium (3)
25/03/2015 Duration: 01h39minThelma Golden discusses the art and social changes from the work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Meet the Artist: Suzy Lake
11/11/2014 Duration: 54minSuzy Lake discusses her work and exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in conversation with exhibition curators Sophie Hackett and Georgiana Uhlyarik.
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Creativity and Failure After Michelangelo
22/10/2014 Duration: 01h03minInspired by the exhibition Michelangelo: Quest for Genius, artists, architects, writers and other creative thinkers consider the value of failure to the creative process.
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Michelangelo Drawings: The Artist Revealed
14/10/2014 Duration: 01h19minThis lecture explores the private and the public sphere of Michelangelo’s activities and how we can gain an understanding of his working methods and development through drawings from the Casa Buonarroti.
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Greg Staats: Constantly thinking about this
12/10/2014 Duration: 01h32minA reflection of Haudenosaunee worldview, mnemonic continuum, and the retention of knowledge. Following an introduction by Fredrik S. Eaton, speakers Andrew Hunter, Jolene Rickard, Rick W. Hill Sr. and Greg Staats discuss the power of reflection, Staats’ recent visual language, the multiplicity of relationships to trauma and renewal and life experiences.
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Fan The Flames: Kim Katrin Crosby Milan
13/08/2014 Duration: 52minJoin artist, activist, writer, facilitator and educator Kim Crosby Milan for an in-gallery tour of Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography.
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Glenn D. Lowry and Matthew Teitelbaum in Conversation
05/06/2014 Duration: 01h25minGlenn D. Lowry and Matthew Teitelbaum discuss art, ideas and the future of museums.
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Behind the Scenes: Designing the Transformed AGO
14/01/2014 Duration: 57minLinda Milrod, Transformation AGO senior project manager and program & installation director, will talk about the extraordinary process of working with Gehry International to transform the AGO.
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Navigating a Gracious Cosmos: Faith and Creativity in 14th Century Florence
22/05/2013 Duration: 01h32minJoin Gilles Mongeau and Sasha Suda as they bring to light the challenges faced by the artists that tried to capture a radical new vision of religious faith started by Dante's Divine Comedy.
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Richard Meyer: What was contemporary art?
08/05/2013 Duration: 51minRichard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture.
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Frida Kahlo Film Screening Introduction
08/01/2013 Duration: 40minThis was a free screening of the 1983 Mexican film Frida, naturaleza viva (1983), directed by Paul Leduc with Ofelia Medina as Frida and painter Juan José Gurrola as Diego.
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Frida Kahlo: Her Life and Art
06/12/2012 Duration: 01h20minHayden Herrera discusses Kahlo's biography and her painting.
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Vishakha Desai: Asian Art in Global Context
14/11/2012 Duration: 01h29minVishakha Desai discusses the rise of contemporary art in Asia and its connection to global movements of economic and political power.
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Michaela Melián: Memory Loops
06/11/2012 Duration: 01h27minThe artist spoke about creating the "Memory Loops" virtual monument, an audio artwork based on material from victims of National Socialism, and addressed important questions about her own work, including content, format and medium.
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The Grange Prize 2012 Dialogues: Photography's Contexts
07/09/2012 Duration: 01h18minThe photographic images we encounter on a daily basis circulate in the press, on billboards, posters, postcards and online. They teach us, for instance, about fashion, crime, what's beautiful and what isn't. How do contemporary photographers today make use of different contexts and modes of circulation to reinvent how we understand photographs?
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The Grange Prize 2012 Dialogues: Photography's Dimensions
03/09/2012 Duration: 01h11minSince the 1970s, many contemporary photography artists have worked with spaces of display – studio, gallery, cinema – and their conventions – both past and present – as they push two-dimensional images into the three-dimensional realm.