Results tagged “kleinburg”

If you’re looking for Canadian content in non-permanent gallery collections this summer, you’re going to have to think outside the AGO—and the ROM, and just about everywhere else in Toronto for that matter. In fact, you’re probably going to have to visit Kleinburg, Ontario (yeah, we know: that's way north of Bloor) to witness Ian M. Thom’s latest guest-curatorial effort for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. And trust us—it’s worth it.

Several kilometres north-west of the city’s limits, we encountered something we hadn’t been expecting. Families shuffling around in coordinating Gore-Tex jackets, frail-looking couples clutching crumpled museum maps, and a few Pretty Young Things looking…surprised. In fact, everyone looked just a little surprised.