AGO’s fundraising triumph represents a considerable turnaround from the museum’s misfortunes of a year ago. For a while, it seemed that AGO couldn’t stumble out of a crisis without bumping headlong into another one. But Toronto’s cultural elite rallied behind the beleaguered museum, and this week’s announcement that AGO is within striking distance of having money in the bank sufficient to stabilize itself and pay for a glamorous new building goes a long way towards rehabilitating its bruised image.