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Art Gallery of Ontario Closes After Visiting School Children Fall Ill, Faint
Several Canadian sources have reported news of seven children falling ill and fainting within minutes of one another at the Art Gallery of Ontario, this morning. They have been taken to hospital....
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Preparing Claes Oldenburg’s “Floor Burger” for MoMA, With Fish Bladders and...
Before Claes Oldenburg’s “Floor Burger” (1962) arrives at the MoMA this spring for a survey of the sculptor’s work from the 1960s and ’70s, it is undergoing an extensive restoration at its home, the...
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Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario Appoints Andrew Hunter as New Canadian Art...
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto has appointed Andrew Hunter to be its new curator of Canadian art, a post he will take up on May 1, the Globe and Mail reports. He succeeds Gerald McMaster,...
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Conceptual Photographer Geoffrey Farmer Wins Canada’s $50,000 Gershon...
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation announced on Thursday that the renowned Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer is the 2013 recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the...
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Ai Weiwei’s Art Gallery of Ontario Show Hosts “Solidarity Buzz” Head-Shaving...
On September 5, as part of a performance being organized by artist Sean Martindale at the Art Gallery of Ontario — which is currently hosting the Ai Weiwei survey “Ai Weiwei: According to What?” — 12...
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Shortlist for Aimia Photography Prize Announced by Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario announced the shortlist for its major contemporary photography prize, Tuesday, in its inaugural year under a new name and format. Formerly titled the Grange Prize, the...
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Erin Shirreff on Winning the Art Gallery of Ontario’s $50,000 Photography Prize
When the Art Gallery of Ontario announced Erin Shirreff the 2013 recipient of its $50,000 contemporary photography prize, November 7, following a long season of public voting, a sense of shock rippled...
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Aimia Photography Prize Announces Longlist
Following Aimia AGO Photography Prize’s recent announcement that New York photographic and film artist Laurie Simmons and internationally itinerant curator Okwui Enwezor were named to its 2014 panel,...
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