oming to the AGO April 13 is a feat of curation that shows what the gallery does best — creating points of human connection with and “What matters most is how that impulse has found expression. No one could have predicted how actively and hyperactively we document it,” says the AGO’s Jim Shedden, who, along with co-curators Alexa Greist and R. Fraser Elliott, took inspiration from themes that emerged organically: home, family, food, dance, protest, and streets (road trips). Included in the show are a rarely exhibited painting by David Hockney, a box from Andy Warhol’s (he kept boxes of literally everything from 1974 until his death in 1987), and works by iconic Indigenous and Canadian artists, including Annie Pootoogook, Mary Pratt and Jack Chambers.
