“We’ve dipped our toes in various moments from his career, but it’s impossible to look at everything,” says Cox. With more than 200 photos, letters, instruments, drawings, memorabilia and writing, as well as videos on loan from the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, this show lets a little light in to Cohen’s artistic and personal influences. In the past year alone: there was a documentary dissecting the popularity of Cohen’s well-trod song, “Hallelujah” Toronto music journalist Michael Posner has just released the third tome in his expansive oral history of the Montreal troubadour, “Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories” and adding to the canon of posthumous Cohen-mania is the Art Gallery of Ontario’s new exhibition, “Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows,” opening to the public on December 13.Ĭurated by Julian Cox, the AGO’s Deputy Director and Chief Curator, this is the first museum exhibition to present archival materials from the Leonard Cohen Family Trust. What is it about Leonard Cohen that still inspires such devotion beyond the words and music? His enigmatic persona? That smoky baritone voice? The unwavering gaze smouldering with intensity, or is it the fact that the polymathic artist, poet, author and musician transformed Grandpa’s classic fedora into a weapon of mass seduction?
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