Popular Weekend Events in Toronto (September Updated)

This exhibition brings together two of the 20th century's greatest painters—Rita Letendre (1928–2021) and Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007). Demonstrating the expressive potential of bold colour and line, these two artists pushed the boundaries of painting. During a career that spanned over sixty-five years, Letendre used brush, airbrush, palette knife, and her hands to make her work. Vibrating with physical and emotional energy, her paintings, —five of which are on view here, —embody her ongoing quest for connection and understanding. Morrisseau's six-panel masterpiece, Man Changing into Thunderbird (1977), illustrates the theme of transformation, an idea central to Anishinaabe philosophy. This painting records the artist's personal evolution into Miskwaabik Animiiki, or “Copper Thunderbird”, a name he received in a healing ceremony. The name carries connotations of protection, healing, mystery, and power, and Morrisseau used it as his signature. Merging personal narrative with intense colour and elaborate design, Morrisseau called this work, “the ultimate picture for me,” - it is featured here alongside two other works by him from the 1970s.

Step into the world of bees and embark on a breathtaking new immersive journey, experiencing the perfect fusion of art and science. This exhibition, a collaboration between the National Museum of Liverpool and award-winning artist and sculptor Wolfgang Barthes, highlights the 120-million-year history of bees' adaptation and survival, telling the epic story of these amazing creatures and their close connection to us and the natural world.

"Psychedelics" is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the cross-cultural and scientific significance of altered states of consciousness. Featuring artwork, objects, botanical specimens, and interactive installations, along with extensive consultation and nuanced narratives, the exhibition aims to illuminate a topic that has been taboo and inaccessible for the past half century.

Renowned American artist Dawoud Bey presents an installation art exhibition focusing on video and photography. This exhibition features three landscape-themed projects by the artist: *Night Coming Tenderly, Black*, *In This Here Place*, and *Stony the Road*. The centerpiece of the exhibition is *350,000* (2023): a dual-screen video work that recreates the journey of 350,000 enslaved Africans along the Richmond Slave Road between 1830 and 1860.

This exhibition features a selection of new works from the artist's studio and loaned pieces, comprehensively showcasing Brian Groombridge's creative practice as a sculptor and printmaker. The Toronto artist draws inspiration from historical facts, space, data, and measurement, his work characterized by concise means and a minimalist style. His focus on graphic techniques, time, and perception is evident in his work, such as *Two Views of a Past* (1992). In this work, Groombridge juxtaposes Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance print of Adam and Eve with the clean geometric shapes of Mies van der Rohe's Chicago Lakeside Avenue apartment. The juxtaposition of images produces a peculiar synergy, while the graph paper in the background alludes to mathematical and geometric systems of knowledge.