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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR2010-2011August 20102• The AGO partners with the Ontario College of Artand Design University (OCADU) to offer a summerdesign day camp for children six to 13 years of age,where campers explore why “design matters,” underthe guidance of OCADU design instructors.• The Grange – a national historic house built in 1820and the Gallery’s first home – receives criticalrepairs, thanks to a generous grant from ParksCanada. Located at the south side of the AGO, TheGrange now houses the Gallery’s Members’ Lounge.• The Honourable James M. Flaherty, Minister ofFinance, ceremonially removes the last piece ofold drywall from the area that will become the newhome for the AGO Youth Council in the new WestonFamily Learning Centre. Designed by Hariri PontariniArchitects, the centre will comprise 35,000 squarefeet for art education programs and activities.Funding for this visionary project was made possibleby two key partners: the Government of Canada’sInfrastructure Stimulus Fund and a landmarkdonation from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation,which committed the largest single gift in support ofart education in the Gallery’s 111-year history.cinema, revealing the rich interplay between thetwo media.• The AGO features three linked yet uniqueexhibitions exploring the process and labourof art in the studio with AT WORK: Eva Hesse –Studiowork, Betty Goodwin – Work Notes,Agnes Martin – Work Ethic.• Some 500 Torontonians attend a lively debateabout the role of the arts in the city by Torontomayoral candidates in the AGO’s Baillie Court,while another 200 watch via live webcastingfrom the Ontario College of Art and DesignUniversity.• The Gallery reinstalls four of its first-floorEuropean galleries to host Shary Boyle: Fleshand Blood, organized and circulated by theGalerie de l’UQAM in partnership with the ArtGallery of Ontario and in collaboration with theContemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Torontoartist Shary Boyle was the recipient of the$25,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO in2009 for her outstanding contribution to visualarts in Canada.• shopAGO sells 300 books in three hours duringa book-signing by Gary Taxali, one of the mostsought-after illustrators in the advertising,design and editorial worlds, whose recentlyreleased children’s book This is Silly! receivedrave reviews.• The Gallery participates in the first-ever CultureDays celebration in Ontario, as actors representsculptures coming to life in free street-theatreperformances.September 2010• Julian Schnabel: Art and Film, a major retrospectiveof the work of the award-winning Americanfilmmaker and artist, opens at the AGO and traceshow Schnabel’s paintings exist in dialogue with theOctober 2010• The AGO’s FRANK restaurant receives the 2010VQA Gold Restaurant Award of Excellence fromWine Country Ontario, its highest honour.4
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR2010-2011• The AGO marks Scotiabank Nuit Blanche,Toronto’s annual sunset-to-sunrise celebrationof contemporary art, with an all-night screeningof Julian Schnabel’s film Lou Reed’s Berlin.• The AGO hosts a talk by director emeritus of TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello,recognized throughout the world as one of themuseum field’s most influential and articulatechampions of integrity, authority, education andpublic access.• AGO visitors experience a different side of artistHenry Moore with the exhibition The Shape ofAnxiety: Henry Moore in the 1930s. Organized byTate Britain in collaboration with the AGO, the showreveals a darker and more surreal nature to Moore’searlier works.November 2010• Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts,a Canadian exclusive, opens at the AGO featuringmore than 200 treasures spanning three centuries.Thanks to the generous support of the Patrons ofthe Exhibition — Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., TheGlobe and Mail, Rogers Communications Inc. andScotiabank Group — the AGO’s Maharaja exhibitionis free to visitors 25 years of age and under.• The AGO unites with other venues to support WorldDiabetes Day, as Baillie Court is lit in blue. Theday is spearheaded by the International DiabetesFederation and supported by the World HealthOrganization.December 2010• The AGO opens the exhibition Animal Tales: Beasts,Toys, and Fables from the AGO Collection. Designedwith young family audiences in mind, the works areinstalled at child height, with a drawing station anda collection of stuffed animals to inspire youngartists to create their own animal drawings.• The AGO introduces multi-sensory tours tovisitors with vision loss, designed to increase theiropportunities to engage with art. Multi-sensorytours become part of the AGO’s regular program,offered twice a month.January 2011• To celebrate 2011 as Canada’s Year of India, theAGO hosts a five-day Maharaja Festival with danceand music performances, cooking demonstrations,Rangoli floor art demonstrations, henna tattooingand special tours of the Maharaja exhibition.• More than 450 guests — many in brilliant SouthAsian dress — arrive for the glittering MaharajaGala. Co-chaired by Laura Rapp and filmmakerDeepa Mehta, the event raises $550,000.• Toronto-based artist Kristan Horton wins TheGrange Prize 2010 for contemporary photography.A partnership between the AGO and Aeroplan, theannual $50,000 prize is Canada’s largestphotography prize and is decided by public voting.• Proceeds raised at the Opening Night Preview eventfor Art Toronto enable the AGO to purchase 10 worksby four contemporary Canadian artists: Mike Bayne,Adad Hannah, An Te Liu and Ron Terada.35
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