Art Gallery of Ontario
IN JAMES TISSOT’S 1872 painting “The Convalescent,” a woman in a white gown is bent over in apparent discomfort, her youth a reminder of the arbitrary toll illness takes. At 2 p.m. today, the Star will livestream a presentation from the Art Gallery of Ontario’s chief curator, Julian Cox, on the museum’s European collection, which includes Tissot’s famous portrait. Discover again the power of painting to capture, across place and time, the trials of being human. Or, if that sounds depressing, let Tissot’s impressionist countrymen free you from lockdown and transport you to the banks of the sun-dappled Seine.