# Event Details - **Event Name**: Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join the acclaimed author for an evening exploring Richard Avedon's vision of age and artistry.About this EventAcclaimed writer Adam Gopnik will speak both as a critic and confidante about Richard Avedon's vision of age and artistry, discussing work as varied as Avedon's portraits of Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Levant, and Harold Arlen, with particular and loving attention to the artist's intentions and his own frequent transcendence of them.Please have your Eventbrite registration and valid ID ready when you arrive. All bags may be subject to inspection by gallery security upon entry.Image above: Adam Gopnik, photo by Brigitte LacombeAbout the SpeakerAdam Gopnik has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986, publishing over his forty years more than a million words in the magazine, including essays, memoirs, fiction, reviews and profiles. He has also published eleven books, including Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, Through the Children’s Gate, At the Strangers’ Gate and Winter (The Fiftieth Anniversary Massey Lecture.) His work in the musical theater includes the libretto and lyrics for the musical comedies Our Table with David Shire and Fairy Tale and Looking Glass with Andrew Lippa, as well as the opera The Swerve with Stewart Wallace. His one man show, Adam Gopnik’s New York, was called “hilarious and wise” by the New York Times and ran for three weeks at New York’s Lincoln Center, and is now on tour from London to California. He has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In January of 2021, he was made a chevalier of the Legion d’ honneur, France’s highest civilian or military honor. He has also received an honoris causa from McGill University, as well as from the Rhode Island School of Design, and in 2025 was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Raised in Montreal, he lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and their two children, varyingly present, Luke Auden and Olivia Esme Claire. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/087fb610-a019-11f1-a9b6-5f3c34d9259b-rimg-w1194-h740-dca8a8a8-gmir.jpg About the ExhibitionRichard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004For nearly half a century, celebrated American photographer Richard Avedon confronted one of portraiture’s enduring taboos: aging. From his earliest years at Harper’s Bazaar, Avedon broke with the conventions of idealized celebrity portraiture, revealing the marks of time on his subjects’ faces with unsparing clarity. Bringing together nearly 100 portraits made between the early 1950s and 2004, the exhibition features artists, writers, musicians, and cultural icons including Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Duke Ellington, Ronald Reagan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Patti Smith, Truman Capote, and the Dalai Lama. Immortal also includes a restaging of Avedon’s seminal 1974 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Jacob Israel Avedon, which chronicled his father’s final years in nine extraordinary portraits. Taken as a whole, the photographs reveal a lesser-known dimension of Avedon’s practice and offer an unprecedented exploration of aging through his distinctive vision.Exhibition on view September 9–December 5, 2026The Image Centre, TorontoImage above: Installation view © Denis Farley, Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsLocationChrysalis (formerly known as Ryerson Theatre) is located at 43 Gerrard Street East in Toronto. The venue is located on the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University. The nearest major intersection is Yonge Street & Gerrard Street.Presented in association with The Creative School Chrysalis.Event Sponsor: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/089030d0-a019-11f1-a9b6-5f3c34d9259b-rimg-w1200-h192-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/toronto/avedon-aging-an-evening-with-adam-gopnik/100001994714831758 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, exhibitions, entertainment, live-music, theatre, comedy, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Toronto - **state**: ON - **country**: Canada - **location**: The Creative School Chrysalis - **lat**: 43.65929999999999 - **long**: -79.37989999999999 - **full address**: The Creative School Chrysalis, 43 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/aa8c672c56fae1926b81545e197d5185addd4b817f264520d0a4609127200cbb-rimg-w1200-h1207-dcb8b8b8-gmir.jpg?v=1787616493 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik being held? - **A:** Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik takes place on Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm at The Creative School Chrysalis, 43 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik? - **A:** Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik is organized by The Image Centre. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Avedon Aging: An Evening with Adam Gopnik is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Toronto, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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