Item - 2024.EC15.5
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on October 9 and 10, 2024 without amendments and without debate.
- This item was considered by the Economic and Community Development Committee on September 18, 2024 and adopted without amendment. It will be considered by City Council on October 9 and 10, 2024.
EC15.5 - Loan of Artwork to the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Adopted on Consent
- Wards:
- All
City Council Decision
City Council on October 9 and 10, 2024, adopted the following:
1. City Council authorize the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to negotiate and enter into agreements with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to loan "Barren Ground Caribou" by Joyce Wieland for a period beginning October 14, 2024, and expiring on March 31, 2026, with an option to extend the term of the agreement at the discretion of the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.
Background Information (Committee)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ec/bgrd/backgroundfile-248418.pdf
EC15.5 - Loan of Artwork to the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Adopted
- Wards:
- All
Committee Recommendations
The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:
1. City Council authorize the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to negotiate and enter into agreements with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to loan "Barren Ground Caribou" by Joyce Wieland for a period beginning October 14, 2024, and expiring on March 31, 2026, with an option to extend the term of the agreement at the discretion of the General Manager, in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.
Origin
Summary
This report recommends that City Council authorize the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to enter into agreements to temporarily loan "Barren Ground Caribou", an artwork by Joyce Wieland owned by the City of Toronto, to the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. City Council authority is required to approve the loan since the artwork has an appraised value of over $100,000.
Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) was a conceptual artist who worked in film and mixed media and is recognized globally as one of the leading Canadian contemporary artists of the 20th century. The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts are preparing to stage a major retrospective of Joyce Wieland's work and have approached the City with a request to loan "Barren Ground Caribou" to feature prominently in the exhibition. "Barren Ground Caribou" is a large-scale quilt depicting caribou roaming across a tundra landscape that was commissioned for the Spadina subway station in 1975.
The exhibition will run at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from February to May 2025 and is expected to open at the Art Gallery of Ontario in June 2025, before closing in January 2026. Following the exhibition, "Barren Ground Caribou" will be re-installed in its original location near the north entrance of Spadina station. The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will assume all costs related to the loan of the artwork, and will ensure that its transportation, exhibition, storage, and re-installation are completed in accordance with professional museums standards.
Background Information
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ec/bgrd/backgroundfile-248418.pdf