Art

When: On now
Why you should go: The AGO brings its massive modernism collection together in anticipation of the pieces being deposited in the new gallery wing, with construction beginning this year. The collection features the works of international art stars, including Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Gerhard Richter and Mark Rothko, with a focus on Canadian artists, including Alex Colville, Rita Letendre, Jack Bush, Agnes Martin, Guido Molinari and Norval Morrisseau.

When: Now until Fri., June 21
Why you should go: Curated by Dallas Fellini, this exhibition contends with the absences and modes of censorship within queer and trans archives through revisionism and cathartic reimagining. Pink peg boards decorated with digitization materials, 3D renderings used to curb biases and pellucid, hand-embroidered textiles abound.

When: Now until Sat., June 22
Why you should go: The exhibition’s name, which plays on gradients in dialect, abridges its multimodal approach: Foerster’s sculptural photography and video work layers the tangible and the virtual object — image, lumber, camcorder footage — in an effort to anarchize expectation and blur boundaries.

When: Now until Sun., June 22
Why you should go: A sculptural installation of collected objects that Hamilton terms “agents of hope,” Live Wire, Tender Stakes presents a reverse alchemy, pulling together currencies of the natural world without attempting to translate their value into the language of late-stage capitalism.

When: Now until Sun., June 22
Why you should go: This remarkable exhibition shows three experimental films by the artist, the titular one being about a symbolic funeral procession for a world order built on hierarchies. A troupe of performers stage elaborate rituals in an abandoned resort in Jeju, South Korea, in their “[refusal] to dance to this cosmic song of division.”

When: Now until Sat., July 27
Why you should go: Curated by Ingrid Jones, Liberation in Four Movements centres Black radical thinking by way of scholarship, embodied practices and moving image media, with reference to Fred Moten’s “Blackness and Nothingness: Mysticism of the Flesh.”

When: Now until Sun., July 28
Why you should go: Spotlighting 25 artists and collectives, GTA24 is an effort to build sustainable ways of living and caring for each other through our artistic commitments. The exhibition spans the museum’s three floors, embracing Toronto’s geographic and cultural ambiguities through exhibitions, presentations and performances.

When: Now until Sun., Aug 11
Why you should go: Featuring over a decade of Gower’s mixed-media inquiries into the architecture of the United States, Embassy uses postwar materials and historiography to contend with structures of power extant within diplomatic architecture. The exhibition involves four large-scale sculptural installations and is interspersed with documentary footage and archival research — a kind of detective story sprung into stationary