As part of my 2024: The Year of Trying New Things project, I decided to attend the Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (on through March 17, 2024). Not knowing much about him, I’d associated his work with Roy Lichtenstein’s comic art and Andy Warhol’s pop art. Warhol …
I fell hard for a sculpture at Toronto Dominion Gallery of Art. This is Owl and Owlet by by Kumakuluk Saggiak, Cape Dorset (Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada), 1972. Toronto Dominion Gallery of Inuit Art is museum no. 60 in my #100museums challenge (see 100 Museums Challenge).
At the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto right now, it really is all about you. The thought-provoking multi-media current exhibition, Age of You, was a pleasure to explore, and right on target for an information professional (librarian). I found reflecting on what it means to exist at this technology-intense time in history both horrifying …
Castellani Art Museum, opened in 1990, is on the campus of Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York. I was pleased to have a chance to visit the museum during a lunch break from a conference on the campus. The museum has a permanent collection of over 5,500 pieces of mostly modern and contemporary art, …
As noted in my previous post, last night I was glad to have the unexpected opportunity to check out the University of Toronto Art Museums, the first of which was University of Toronto Art Centre at University College. I also paid a visit to Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House. While I was very …
Last night I had the unexpected chance to check out the University of Toronto’s two art galleries, which are open late on Wednesday evenings (and closed weekends). I’d never been to the University of Toronto Art Centre at University College, which opened in 1996 in, uh, University College on the downtown campus. The current exhibit …
Visiting The Cleveland Museum of Art for the first time, I was impressed by the breadth of the collection. What a fabulous resource for the local community, students in particular, to see works from all over the world, from earliest times to the present. One object I spent some time examining was the above ceramic …
I was hoping to revisit the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg before the end of the summer, and today was the day. The greatest thing about the McMichael gallery, other than its stunning collection, is its unique location in woodlands north of Toronto. As you tour the gallery, there are regular opportunities to sit …
On one of the coldest nights of the year, and the day after the most snow Toronto’s seen in a decade, I spent some time warming up by walking through The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), reacquainting myself with the collections. I wasn’t familiar with the Indigenous galleries (I think they were under renovation for some time?) …
A current exhibit on at The Textile Museum of Canada is Beads, They’re Sewn So Tight, through May 26, 2019. I’m attracted to and fond of beadwork, having grown up in a household filled with Canadian and American Indigenous artwork, and having learned to bead on a loom as a youth. So I found this …
