Synopsis
A comprehensive compilation of all AGO Art Talks and Audio Tours. Listen to the worlds leading artists, curators and scholars discuss their work, research and current issues in contemporary, modern and art history.
Episodes
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Ross King Modern Spirits: The European Adventures of the Group of Seven
11/12/2009 Duration: 01h22minThe secrets and symbolism of Canada's most famous art group come to light in a lecture by bestselling author Ross King. King's forthcoming book Modern Spirits: The European Adventures of the Group of Seven exposes how, despite their professed nationalism, the Group of Seven was clearly indebted to a number of international trends.
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Toilet Seat
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThis is the Toilet Seat from the 18th dynasty found in the capital city of Amarna. It's possible even that some of the royal family might have used it, or something like this, and even Tutankhamun.
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Colossal Statue of Tutankhamun Usurped by Horemheb
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThe Colossal Statue of Tutankhamun is the last artifact in exhibition, and it really tells about the fate of some pharaohs but not all pharaohs. This originally would have stood about 17.5 feet high, and it was placed in the exhibit at that exact height.
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Cobra Collar
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThe Cobra Collar of Tutankhamun was one of several different necklaces that were found in the tomb. This one, and several others, were actually found on the body of Tutankhamun, put around the neck, and there were some others that were on different parts of the body.
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Finger and Toe Covers
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThe Finger and Toe Covers of Tutankhamun are made entirely of gold, and they're to reinforce the idea that the king has now become divine and therefore his skin and bones would be made of gold.
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Canopic Coffinette
11/12/2009 Duration: 02minThis is the Canopic Coffinette of Tutankhamun. There were actually four of these, and they were four miniature coffins that were made to look almost exactly like the golden coffin that Tutankhamun was buried in.
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Funerary Figure (Shabati)
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThis is a Funerary Figure of Tutankhamun, sometimes called a Shabati figure, and is the first artifact you see in the section on Tutankhamun himself. It's very large, one of the largest you'll see of these types of figures that are called funerary figures, or are called shabatis.
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Canopic Stopper
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThe Canopic Stopper is actually the lid – there were four of these lids that had the form of the face of Tutankhamun. These were the four lids for four sections of a container, made of calcite, which is a soft form of alabaster.
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Funerary Mask of Psusennes I
11/12/2009 Duration: 01minThe Funerary Mask of Psusennes I comes from the section in the exhibition that's called Pharaoh's Gold. In that part of the exhibition we try to explain why so many things were made of gold that went into pharaoh's burial.
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Inner Coffin of Queen Meritamun
11/12/2009 Duration: 02minThe Inner Coffin of Queen Meritamun is one of the prominent pieces in the section on Pharaoh's religion. It's made of wood and is painted, and it also has the queen shown wearing a wig – and there are titles and her name inscribed on the front of the coffin.
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Introduction by David Silverman
11/12/2009 Duration: 41sPodcast by David Silverman, Curator of King Tut, the Golden King and Great Pharaohs
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John Ralston Saul: The Images of A Fair Country
11/12/2009 Duration: 01h39minJohn Ralston Saul argues that it is critical that we recognize these aspects of Canada in order to rethink its future. His talk explores these issues and develops them in the context of the Art Gallery of Ontario's reinstalled collection of Canadian Art.
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Meet the Artist: El Anatsui
09/10/2009 Duration: 01h23minEl Anatsui has gained widespread international acclaim in recent years for his dazzling metallic tapestries made from liquor bottle tops. His work is currently on view at the AGO, and his recent metal-cloth series and sculptures in wood, ceramic, and mixed media will be part of the world premiere of the artist's first-ever career retrospective at the Royal Ontario Museum's Institute for Contemporary Culture in 2010.
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The Reality Effect: Questions of Photography and Truth
29/09/2009 Duration: 58minMark Haworth-Booth discusses the issue of photography and truth, ranging from the mid nineteenth century era of Roger Fenton and Camille Silvy to 9/11 and the recent G20 demonstrations in London. Mark Haworth-Booth has had a major curatorial and scholarly influence on the development of photographic culture in Britain.
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Are we past the age of an aboriginal art show?
09/09/2009 Duration: 01h04minExhibition curators Gerald McMaster and Joe Baker, Globe and Mail art critic Sarah Milroy, and professor of African and African Diaspora art history and visual culture Salah Hassan discuss the exhibition Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World.
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The New Woman: Angelika and Women's Rights
10/07/2009 Duration: 06minAngie Littlefield talks about Angelika's connections to the feminist issues of her time. Hear more about how the "New Woman," as she was then called, was politically and intellectually engaged, sported a bold short haircut called the bob and was increasingly self-sufficient.
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Who Had the Right to Expect What?: The marriage of Angelika and Heinrich Hoerle
10/07/2009 Duration: 07minGuest curator Angie Littlefield, Angelika Hoerle's grand-niece, explores the tumultuous relationship between Angelika and her husband Heinrich Hoerle, who would become one of the Cologne Progressives.
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Dada and Music
10/07/2009 Duration: 06minToronto musician and composer Ennio Paola takes us into the Dada arts scene of post World War I Germany, relating the musical compositions of Erwin Schulhoff to visual artist Angelika Hoerle.
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The Outing of a Canadian Icon
06/07/2009 Duration: 32minDennis Reid presents new research that suggests that one of Canada's most popular nineteenth century painters was, actually, gay. Revisionist history has never been so fabulous. Dennis Reid is the AGO Chief Curator, Research, and an eminent historian of Canadian art.