News Releases
AGO Youth Council Programming Focuses on Identity, Nationality and Community
Toronto, July 31, 2008
Throughout 2008, the AGO Youth Council will showcase a lineup of innovative programming with three major projects that focus on identity, nationality and community.
Momentum builds for Transformation AGO
Campaign achieves $254 million goal
Date Posted: June 26, 2008
Five months before the new Art Gallery of Ontario opens, the Transformation AGO Campaign has reached its goal of $254 million, giving the Gallery the confidence to increase the scope of its expansion project.
Transformed AGO sets public opening
Free admission November 14-16
Date Posted: May 28, 2008
The countdown begins.
On Friday, November 14, the fully-transformed Art Gallery of Ontario will open to the public with three days of free admission.
Celebrated architect and Toronto-born Frank Gehry's first Canadian building, the new AGO will welcome the world to 110 light-filled galleries featuring more than 4,000 new and perennial favourite art works.
AGO Unveils Bold New Logo
Date Posted: May 15, 2008
The Art Gallery of Ontario has unveiled a distinctive new logo that will represent the Gallery well beyond its Fall 2008 opening.
Centered inside a black square, the Gallery’s new logo uses multiple typefaces and a wide spectrum of colours to create a unique effect reminiscent of light refracting through glass. By combining a strong iconic form - the black square - with a shimmering juxtaposition of overlapping coloured typefaces, the logo captures both the stability of the century-old institution and the forward-looking energy of the new Gallery. A signature wordmark has also been created, which incorporates the logo and the Gallery’s name in English and French...
AGO and CONTACT present a transformative installation by Suzy Lake
Date Posted: May 1, 2008
The Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival 2008 presents a site-specific installation by one of Canada's most important artists. Suzy Lake's compelling photographic mural entitled Rhythm of a True Space covers a section of the construction hoarding just outside the AGO's McCaul Street entrance.
Accessibility a Priority in the Transformed AGO
Date Posted: March 31, 2008
When the Art Gallery of Ontario opens in fall 2008, expanded access programs will include free after-school general admission for all Ontario secondary students.
“We’re nearing the completion of an extraordinary new home for extraordinary art,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO’s Michael and Sonja Koerner director, and CEO. “Even as we step onto the world stage as a cultural destination, we want to make the AGO accessible and welcoming to the people of Toronto and Ontario. We want them to feel this is their art museum, a place where they will connect with art and want to return time and again.”
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