{"id":399168,"date":"2026-01-09T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:59:07","slug":"major-flooding-closes-art-gallery-of-algoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399168\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Major flooding&#8217; closes Art Gallery of Algoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Art Gallery of Algoma is closed today due to what&#8217;s\u00a0being described\u00a0as a major flood.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery is home to a permanent collection of over 5,000 works of art including paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and installation works.<\/p>\n<p>Its collection includes work by Group of Seven painters.<\/p>\n<p>AGA officials were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0unknown if the flooding has damaged any artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The area did receive a lot of rain overnight and has had a lot of snow melt due to warm temperatures, so much that across the river they were forced to do a bypass of some processes at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/local-news\/heavy-rain-causes-nearby-plant-to-not-fully-treat-wastewater-11717499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater treatment plant.\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Art Gallery of Algoma is closed today due to what&#8217;s\u00a0being described\u00a0as a major flood. The gallery is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[168491,76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-399168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-gallery-of-algoma","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}