Where is the Hoopla for a groundbreaking Black curated exhibition at the AGO in Toronto
A Caribbean Art Exhibition Of Epic Proportion Opens Friday At The AGO. Only the Hoopla Is Missing By Stephen Weir Curse the Toronto Covid shutdown. This Friday there should be balloons, fireworks, and revellers in the street to mark the opening of Caribbean-centric art exhibition the likes Canada has not seen before. But, the reality of the age is that on Friday morning the Art Gallery of Ontario will quietly open its Dundas Street front doors on the exhibition Fragments of Epic Memory , a detailed exploration of the complex history of the Caribbean in this made-in-Toronto major exhibition. The big show is an amalgam of a huge collection of historic photographs of 19 th and early 20 th century life in the Caribbean displayed beside contemporary Caribbean Canadian artists including Ebony Patterson, Rodell Warner, Sandra Brewster and Zak Ové. The black and white photographs many dating back to the 19 th ...