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Contemporary Video Artist to Mine AGO Collection and Toronto’s Cultural Community
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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is delighted to announce Hiraki Sawa as its next artist-in-residence. The London, U.K.–based, internationally recognized contemporary artist will be based in the AGO’s Weston Family Learning Centre through the end of June 2012. The Gallery’s Artist-in-Residence Program, the first of its kind at a major Canadian art museum, hosts as many as six artists each year for eight-week terms.

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AGO Presents Performance Installation with VIA Rail and OCAD University
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Artist Aimée Henny Brown, in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), OCAD University and VIA Rail, presents Overland Station: par voie de terre. This site-specific and interactive performance will stop at the AGO on May 17 at 6:30 p.m. for a free public performance, celebrating the mid-point of Brown's eight-day trip across Western Canada.

From the Collections

Robert Clow Todd
born Berwick-on-Tweed, England, around 1809; died Toronto, Ontario, 1866
The Ice Cone, Montmorency Falls, Quebec, around 1845
oil on canvas, 51.2 x 67.9 cm
Purchase, with the assistance of the Government of Canada through the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, 1987 Alfred-Pierre Agache
born Lille, France, 1843; died Cour-Cheverny, France, 1915
The Sword, 1896
oil on canvas, 177.8 x 109.2 cm
Gift of the Canadian National Exhibition Association, 1965 Linneaus Tripe
born Plymouth Deck (now Devonport), England, 1822; died Devonport, England, 1902
Amerapoora. Maha-Too-Lo-Bounghian Kyoung, 1855
albumen print from waxed paper negative, coloured in watercolour, 26.6 x 35.0 cm
Gift of Dr. Shashi Dewan and Janet Dewan, 1996 Mother and Child
Yoruba artist of the Owo Kingdom, Nigeria, 1500s or 1600s
ivory, 14.4 x 7.3 x 7.7 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Camille Pissarro
born St. Thomas Island, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), 1830; died Paris, France, 1903
Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather, 1896
oil on canvas, 73.6 x 91.4 cm
Gift of Reuben Wells Leonard Estate, 1937 Christoph Maucher
born Schwabisch, Gmund, Germany, 1642; died Germany, after 1721
Hercules and Anateus (with one of the Furies), before 1695
ivory
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Pieter Brueghel the Younger
born Brussels, Belgium, 1564/5; died Antwerp, Belgium, 1637/8
The Peasants Wedding
oil on wood, 36.2 x 44.2 cm
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Redelmeier, 1940 David Milne
born near Burgoyne, Ontario, 1882; died Bancroft, Ontario, 1953
Winter Sky, 1 January 1935
oil on canvas, 30.5 x 41.3 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Gian Lorenzo Bernini
born Naples, Italy, 1898; died Rome, Italy, 1680
Pope Gregory XV, 1621
marble, 83.2 x 62.3 x 32.4 cm
Gift of Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, 1997 Andrea Brustolon (attributed to)
born and died Belluno, Italy, 1662-1732
Frame: Four Labours of Hercules, 1700-1725
boxwood, 21.5 x 18.0 x 2.5 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

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