AGO x Ai Weiwei: According to What? [ART]

“The most powerful figure in contemporary art.” — ArtReview

Although Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is one of the most prolific, provocative and significant artists at work today, audiences in North America have had little exposure to his vast and varied output. That will change this summer, when the AGO becomes the only Canadian stop on a North American tour that is already drawing crowds — and controversy — at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

Featuring photographs, sculpture, installation art and audio and video pieces, Ai Weiwei: According to What? examines how the artist spotlights the complexities of a changing world and probes such issues as freedom of expression, individual and human rights, the power of digital communication and the range of creative practice that characterizes contemporary art today both in China and globally.

Organized by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and the Art Gallery of Ontario

The exhibition runs from August 17th – October 27th, 2013

For more information click HERE.

Pablo Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso [ART]

The exhibition is organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Art Gallery of Ontario and features 147 works from Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso… or better yet, Pablo Picasso’s own collection. View the pieces he chose to keep for himself to define his artistic legacy, as well as the depictions of his muses and mistresses by visiting the Art Gallery of Ontario from May 1 - August 26, 2012.

Exhibited chronologically and covering virtually every phase of the modern master’s unceasingly radical and diverse career.

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris features:

•The Death of Casagemas, one of the first works he created in Paris in 1901;

•Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), the iconic 1906 self-portrait;

•the 1904 Blue-period masterpiece Celestina (The Woman with One-Eye), and The Two Brothers, a 1906 work from his Rose period;

•landmark African-inspired artwork that led to the advent of Cubism, including studies for the 1907 masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Three Figures Beneath a Tree, 1907-08

•examples of his genre-defining Analytic and Synthetic Cubism artworks, including the 1909-10 Sacré Coeur, 1911’s seminal Man with a Guitar and 1915’s Violin;

•Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), a 1922 masterwork from his Neoclassical period, and 1925’s The Kiss, from his Surrealist period;

•a series of sculptures created during the Second World War, including 1942’s Bull’s Head, and two bronzes, 1943’s Death’s Head and 1950’s The Goat;

•The Bathers, the 1956 life-sized, six-piece figurative sculpture series created during a summer in Cannes; and

•The Matador, the famous self-portrait painted in 1970, three years before his death

Get your tickets at www.ago.net/picasso