similar sophistication when the Tate Modern brings to the AGO a career-spanning Georgia
O’Keeffe retrospective (April 22 to July 30, 2017).
Like the AGO, the equally vast Royal Ontario Museum has also undergone a change in
leadership, and its exhibition halls reflect an evolving vision of what a modern museum can be.
At first glance, the ROM’s sizeable display of works by contemporary glass artist Dale Chihuly
(to January 2, 2017) might seem out of place at a museum largely devoted to the ancient past.
His dazzling sculptures, however, reveal much about the science and craft behind the age-old art
of glass blowing. Visual art similarly informs examinations of the social and sexual mores of feudal
Japan in the exhibition A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints (to November 27,
2016), and pride and prejudice amongst Ghanaian tribal militias in Art, Honour and Ridicule:
Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana (September 3, 2016 to February 25, 2017).
And if you’re still thirsty for groundbreaking art—literally groundbreaking, in this case—you’ll
want to make tracks to Toronto’s completely reimagined Museum of Contemporary Art. Set to
open in the 2017 inside a renovated west-end factory, the museum has styled itself as something
of an international agora, where creators (and viewers) from around the world can come
together to advance social, political and philosophical discourse through art.
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Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas St. W., 416-979-6648; ago.net
30 where.ca / / e s s e n t i a l t o r o n t o 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7
Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W., 416-363-8231; coc.ca
Mirvish Productions
Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria St.
Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King St. W.
Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St. W.
416-872-1212; mirvish.com
Museum of Contemporary Art
416-395-0067; museumofcontemporaryart.ca
National Ballet of Canada
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St. W., 416-345-9595; national.ballet.ca
Royal Conservatory of Music
273 Bloor St. W., 416-408-0208; rcmusic.ca
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park, 416-586-8000; rom.on.ca
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St., 416-598-9522; tso.ca