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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017 - Oxidation Painting
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min017 - Oxidation Painting by Art Gallery of Ontario
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016 - Marsha P. Johnson
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min016 - Marsha P. Johnson by Art Gallery of Ontario
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015 - Ladies and Gentlemen
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min015 - Ladies and Gentlemen by Art Gallery of Ontario
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006 - Pop and Religious Icons
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min006 - Pop and Religious Icons by Art Gallery of Ontario
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005 - 100 Campbell's Soup Cans
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min005 - 100 Campbell's Soup Cans by Art Gallery of Ontario
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003 - Early Line Drawings
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min003 - Early Line Drawings by Art Gallery of Ontario
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002 - Andy Warhol as a Young Boy
18/07/2021 Duration: 01min002 - Andy Warhol as a Young Boy by Art Gallery of Ontario
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Yolanda Bruno TSO Violinist
05/05/2021 Duration: 01minA musical excerpt from Toronto Symphony Orchestra violinist Yolanda Bruno.
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Jeremias Schultz, artist, and Joseph Pierre, collector
30/03/2021 Duration: 37minAdam Levine and Monique Johnson reflect on one year of studying the painting and share new, major discoveries: they have identified the painting’s maker, the likely location of the painting, and other works by the same artist. They’ve also uncovered new details about the painting’s provenance and the life it lived before it came to Toronto.
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The Orange Blossom
26/08/2020 Duration: 36minThe lady in the portrait holds a flowering sprig in her right hand. We ask Deborah Metsger, Assistant Curator of Botany at the Royal Ontario Museum to help us identify the plant as an orange blossom. We learn about where and how orange trees grew in the eighteenth century and the potential symbolism behind this botanical element in the portrait.
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Race and Representation
08/07/2020 Duration: 49minPortrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom was painted at the height of Trans-Atlantic Slavery. We speak with Charmaine A. Nelson, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University, about issues of race and representation in eighteenth-century portraiture.