Lynn Crosbie on Augustus John’s Marchesa Casati

Dionne Brand on Mary Pratt’s The Service Station

George Elliott Clarke on Emily Carr's The Trees in the Sky

Souvankham Thammavongsa on Agnes Martin’s Untitled #10

Roberta Shaw will discuss all the accoutrements that went into producing the idea of perfect personal beauty for the people who lived in ancient Egypt.

Meet artist Giuseppe Penone and enjoy a captivating talk on how his artwork unsettles the boundaries between art and nature, and signals the interdependence of all organic life forms.

The secrets and symbolism of Canada’s most famous art group come to light in a lecture by bestselling author Ross King.

John Ralston Saul argues that it is critical that we recognize the influence aboriginal ideas have had on Canada in order to rethink its future. His talk explores these ideas and develops them in the context of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s 2009 reinstallation of the Canadian Art collection.

El Anatsui has gained widespread international acclaim in recent years for his dazzling metallic tapestries made from liquor bottle tops. Listen to El Anatsui talk about his work.

Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, Ontario poet Barry Dempster created and presents a new poem in response to a painting by Paterson Ewen from the AGO’s collection.