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Make your AGA your next stop! The Art Gallery of Alberta offers a special discount to ETS riders

For Immediate Release
June 5, 2012 

Edmonton, AB (June 5/12) – It’s The Everyday Way to Your AGA!  Connecting people, art and ideas is now easier than ever as the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) teams up with Edmonton Transit System (ETS) to bring Transit users a special deal.

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AGA’s popular late-night art party Refinery returns! Limited tickets are still available for this must-attend event of the summer!

For Immediate Release
May 29, 2012

Edmonton, AB (May 29/12) – Experience your Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) like never before as our popular late-night art party, Refinery, returns on Saturday, June 23, 2012.

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Coming Saturday to your AGA: Two new exhibitions that showcase influential local and international artists

For Immediate Release
May 29, 2012

Edmonton, AB (May 29/12) – The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions: LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1911-2010 and 7 YEARS IN THE CITY: Art from the AGA Collection.

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50 years of work by Alex Janvier; one of Canada’s most influential artists

For Immediate Release
May 7, 2012

EDMONTON, AB – The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is pleased to open its Block II exhibition schedule with ALEX JANVIER, opening May 18 – August 19, 2012Featuring over 90 works, including many never before seen paintings and drawings, from private and public collections across Canada, this highly anticipated exhibition offers a retrospective of work from the artist, dating from the early 1960s to a selection of Janvier’s most recent work produced in 2012.

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New AGA installation explores the shifting relation of power between man and the environment, and the geological impacts of humankind as an often destructive force of nature

For Immediate Release
May 7, 2012

EDMONTON, AB – BRENDAN McGILLICUDDY: Anthropocene opens May 18-July 1, 2012 at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA).

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AGA receives Canadian Museums Award for Outstanding Achievement

For Immediate Release
May 1, 2012

EDMONTON, AB – Each year, the Canadian Museums Association (CMA) is proud to celebrate excellence in the Canadian museum field through its Outstanding Achievement Awards program. The 2011 awards were presented on April 25, 2012 to recognize professional achievement and excellence in the museum sector.

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The Art Gallery of Alberta is pleased to present a new exhibition entitled Art School: Banff 1947

For Immediate Release
March 2, 2012 

EDMONTON, AB – The Art Gallery of Alberta is pleased to present a new exhibition entitled Art School: Banff 1947, March 10 – June 3, 2012.

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New exhibition focuses on women artists of a pioneering generation, who contributed to Alberta’s cultural roots and the formation of a vibrant and decidedly modern visual arts community in the province

For Immediate Release
March 29, 2012 

EDMONTON, AB – The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is pleased to present Alberta Mistressesof the Modern: 1935-1975, March 10 – June 3, 2012.

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The emergence of the new artistic avant-garde in the early 20th century: Picasso, Dali, Mondrian; 15 artists, 36 works from the National Gallery of Canada, now at your AGA.

Picasso, Dali, Mondrian; 15 artists, 36 works from the National Gallery of Canada, now at your AGA.

For Immediate Release
February 2, 2012

EDMONTON, AB – The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is pleased to present ICONS OF MODERNISM, February 11 – May 21, 2012.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Paris, the unrivalled centre of the art world, witnessed the emergence of a new avant-garde in response to rapid technological progress and the new realities of daily life in the mechanized age.

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Coming of age during the rise of capitalism, 22 young artists challenge preconceptions of Central and Eastern Europe as a historical, social and political monolith.

For Immediate Release
January 19, 2012

EDMONTON, ABREARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe opens January 28 – April 29, 2012 at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA).

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