Exhibition Opening Talks Cobalt: A Mining Town and the Canadian Imagination & Moridja Kitenge Banza: Topographies Saturday, November 18 Speakers: Dr. Catharine Mastin and Moridja Kitenge Banza With John Geoghegan, Sarah Milroy Date & Time Saturday, November 18 from 1 to 3 pm [...]

Unapologetic: Championing Canadian Art in the World Canadians are infamous for apologizing – for everything, it seems. But they should never apologize for their art. Join McMichael Executive Director and North Star curator Ian Dejardin as he examines a handpicked selection of Canadian masterpieces and shares how he was inspired by the comment, [...]

Virtual Talk Some Scottish Roots in Canadian Art Tuesday, August 22 | 7 pm Did you know that Tom Thomson’s grandparents hailed from Aberdeenshire? Or that David Milne wore a kilt to school? Join our Edinburgh-born Executive Director Ian A.C. Dejardin as he explores the Scottish roots of some [...]

Shooting Stars Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at the McMichael NEW DATE: Friday, November 24 at 8 pm TICKETS COMING SOON The history of the arts is liberally laced with the tales of practitioners whose lives and careers were cut unnaturally short. For today’s concert, we take [...]

Curatorial Talk Tom Thomson: North Star Sunday, June 25 | 2 pm at the McMichael Join McMichael Executive Director and North Star curator Ian Dejardin as he delves into the history and technique of Tom Thomson’s astonishing oil sketches, untangling fact from fiction. Gain a better understanding of the [...]

New Orleans Night at the McMichael Celebrate Mother’s Day New Orleans style with the smooth sounds of the Red Hot Ramble band, which blends traditional jazz, blues and funk. Join us at 5 pm for dinner at CABIN (prix-fixe menu available, not included with admission), followed by a concert [...]

Curatorial Talk The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism Sunday, May 7 | 2 pm at the McMichael Please join us for a discussion of art’s role in the growing climate crisis, and the ways in which artworks open up a space for collective reckoning. Speakers: Sarah Milroy, Bill [...]

2023 Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Arts Presenting Meryl McMaster In partnership with the York University Department of Visual Art and Art History **New Date: Wednesday, March 1 at 5 PM Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been rescheduled to March 1 at 5 pm. If you have already [...]

Virtual Artist’s Talk The Perseverance Suite: A Conversation with June Clark Tuesday, February 21 | 7 pm Join McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy for a virtual Artist's Talk with Toronto-based visual artist June Clark about her work Untitled (From the Perseverance Suite), which was recently acquired by the Gallery. Milroy and Clark [...]

Meryl McMaster, The Grass Grows Deep, 2022, Giclée Print, 40” x 60” Meryl McMaster (b. 1988), On the Edge of This Immensity, 2019, Digital Chromogenic Print, 101.6 x 152.4 cm, Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, © Meryl McMaster [...]

Dempsey Bob, Wolf Headdress, 1988-89, adler, acrylic paint, fur, operculum shell 40.6 x 20.3 cm, Private Collection Photo: Rachel Topham Photography p. 90 VIEW EXHIBITION Artist’s Talk Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob Saturday, December 10 | 2:30 pm at the McMichael Join McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy [...]

Rajni Perera (b. 1985), Traveller #5, 2019, mixed media on paper, 152.4 × 101.6 cm, Royal Bank of Canada Art Collection, commissioned by the RBC Curatorial Department, Photo courtesy of Patel Brown, © Rajni Perera VIEW EXHIBITION Artist’s Talk Rajni Perera: Futures Saturday, November 19 | 11:30 am at [...]