National Gallery of Canada

Activities & Events

• Sunday February 26, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Back to the Land

  Galleries B102 and B103

  3 February – 25 March 2012

  This photographic exhibition highlights recent acquisitions focusing on land and landscape. It includes the works of Canadian photographers Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Geneviève Cadieux, Normand Rajotte, Bill Vazan and Shelley Niro.
  Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet

  Rideau Chapel

  17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
   

  Learn more

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  The Clock

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Catch the Canadian premiere of Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time.

  No reservation and space is limited. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

  gallery.ca/theclock/

  Learn more

  open
• 11:00 AM
  studio
  Workshops

  Artissimo

  Duration : 5h

  Hands on activities for families in the Great Hall.

  Learn more

  open
• 11:15 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery B206

  Featured artwork for this talk: the nominal three (to William of Ockham) by Dan Flavin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 11:45 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Room C213

  Featured artwork for this talk: L'âge d'airain by Auguste Rodin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 1:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery B207

  Featured artwork for this talk: untitled (in honour of Leo at the 30th anniversary of his gallery) by Dan Flavin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 1:45 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Room C213

  Featured artwork for this talk: L'âge d'airain by Auguste Rodin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 2:00 PM
  music
  Concerts

  Music for a Sunday Afternoon

  Pinchas Zukerman, violin, Jessica Linnebach, violin, Jethro Marks, viola, Amanda Forsyth, cello, Angela Cheng, piano, and members of the NAC Orchestra.

  Seperate ticket required.

  open
• 2:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Made in America Talks (French only)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  10-minute talks in French on a theme from the exhibition Made in America.

  open
• Monday February 27, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• information
  General Information

  Gallery closed Mondays until May 1st

  1 October -  30 April: Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am - 5pm, Thursday till 8 pm. Closed on Mondays.

  open
• Tuesday February 28, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Back to the Land

  Galleries B102 and B103

  3 February – 25 March 2012

  This photographic exhibition highlights recent acquisitions focusing on land and landscape. It includes the works of Canadian photographers Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Geneviève Cadieux, Normand Rajotte, Bill Vazan and Shelley Niro.
  Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet

  Rideau Chapel

  17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
   

  Learn more

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  The Clock

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Catch the Canadian premiere of Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time.

  No reservation and space is limited. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

  gallery.ca/theclock/

  Learn more

  open
• 11:15 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C202a

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Five Senses by Attributed to Antoon Claeissins

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 11:45 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Room C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: La mort du général Wolfe by Benjamin West

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: Two Cats by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:45 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Room C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: La mort du général Wolfe by Benjamin West

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• Wednesday February 29, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Leiber & Sullivan

  NGC Library & Archives

  11 January – 27 April*
  This exhibition brings together familiar publications of the modernist era alongside those by a dealer, Steven Leiber, and an artist, Derek Sullivan, whose works are re-creations and re-presentations of late modernist documents. *Open during Reading Room hours

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Back to the Land

  Galleries B102 and B103

  3 February – 25 March 2012

  This photographic exhibition highlights recent acquisitions focusing on land and landscape. It includes the works of Canadian photographers Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Geneviève Cadieux, Normand Rajotte, Bill Vazan and Shelley Niro.
  Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet

  Rideau Chapel

  17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
   

  Learn more

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  The Clock

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Catch the Canadian premiere of Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time.

  No reservation and space is limited. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

  gallery.ca/theclock/

  Learn more

  open
• 11:15 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C205

  Featured artwork for this talk: A Sermon in the Old Church in Delft by Emanuel de Witte

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 11:45 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Room B105

  Featured artwork for this talk: Cellule (La dernière montée) by Louise Bourgeois

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A102

  Featured artwork for this talk: Cholera Plague, Quebec by Joseph Légaré

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:45 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Room B105

  Featured artwork for this talk: Cellule (La dernière montée) by Louise Bourgeois

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• Thursday March 01, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Leiber & Sullivan

  NGC Library & Archives

  11 January – 27 April*
  This exhibition brings together familiar publications of the modernist era alongside those by a dealer, Steven Leiber, and an artist, Derek Sullivan, whose works are re-creations and re-presentations of late modernist documents. *Open during Reading Room hours

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet

  Rideau Chapel

  17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
   

  Learn more

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Back to the Land

  Galleries B102 and B103

  3 February – 25 March 2012

  This photographic exhibition highlights recent acquisitions focusing on land and landscape. It includes the works of Canadian photographers Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Geneviève Cadieux, Normand Rajotte, Bill Vazan and Shelley Niro.
  Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  The Clock

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Catch the Canadian premiere of Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time.

  No reservation and space is limited. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

  gallery.ca/theclock/

  Learn more

  open
• 11:15 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A105

  Featured artwork for this talk: A Venetian Bather by Paul Peel

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 11:45 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C214

  Featured artwork for this talk: N° 16 by Mark Rothko

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C204

  Featured artwork for this talk: Lot and his Daughters by Orazio Gentileschi

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:45 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C214

  Featured artwork for this talk: N° 16 by Mark Rothko

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 5:00 PM
  information
  General Information

  Free admission to the Permanent Collection every Thursday

  Duration : 3h

  Every Thursday evening from 5 pm - 8 pm enjoy free admission to the Gallery's Permanent Collection. 

  open
• 5:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: Colonel Charles Churchill by Joshua Reynolds

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 5:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C201

  Featured artwork for this talk: L'Assomption de la Vierge by Neri di Bicci

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 6:00 PM
  lecture
  Lectures

  Hot Art, by Joshua Knelman

  Auditorium

  Award winning journalist and editor Joshua Knelman will be discussing his new book Hot Art. Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art. Founding editorial member of The Walrus magazine, his articles have appeared in Toronto Life, Saturday Night, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail. His feature article “Artful crimes” in The Walrus won a gold national Magazine Award. Knelman is also the co-editor of Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, which has sold in ten countries.

  In the Auditorium. Tickets: Adults $5, Seniors and Students $4, Members $3.
  open
• 6:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: Colonel Charles Churchill by Joshua Reynolds

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 6:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C201

  Featured artwork for this talk: L'Assomption de la Vierge by Neri di Bicci

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 6:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Made in America Talks (French only)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  10-minute talks in French on a theme from the exhibition Made in America.

  open
• Friday March 02, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Leiber & Sullivan

  NGC Library & Archives

  11 January – 27 April*
  This exhibition brings together familiar publications of the modernist era alongside those by a dealer, Steven Leiber, and an artist, Derek Sullivan, whose works are re-creations and re-presentations of late modernist documents. *Open during Reading Room hours

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Back to the Land

  Galleries B102 and B103

  3 February – 25 March 2012

  This photographic exhibition highlights recent acquisitions focusing on land and landscape. It includes the works of Canadian photographers Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Geneviève Cadieux, Normand Rajotte, Bill Vazan and Shelley Niro.
  Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet

  Rideau Chapel

  17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
   

  Learn more

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  The Clock

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Catch the Canadian premiere of Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time.

  No reservation and space is limited. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

  gallery.ca/theclock/

  Learn more

  open
• 11:15 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A102

  Featured artwork for this talk: Sister Saint-Alphonse by Antoine Plamondon

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 11:45 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C212a

  Featured artwork for this talk: Chevaux de courses by Edgar Degas

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A105

  Featured artwork for this talk: Horse Race among the Blackfoot Indians by Paul Kane

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 12:45 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C212a

  Featured artwork for this talk: Chevaux de courses by Edgar Degas

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• Saturday March 03, 2012
• event
  Exhibition

  Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

  Contemporary Gallery B109

  Drawn from our collection and loans from the Louise Bourgeois Trust, this installation pays homage to the remarkable career of Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most-celebrated contemporary artists. Included are works from her very first solo sculpture exhibition in New York in 1949, as well as the NGC’s recent acquisition Cell (The Last Climb) (2008), the last of the more than 20 large-scale cell sculptures she produced. Her monumental spider on the Gallery’s outdoor Plaza, Maman (1999, cast 2003) is one of the artist's most-recognized public art sculptures and has become an Ottawa landmark. Born in France, she spent most of her life in New York City.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Back to the Land

  Galleries B102 and B103

  3 February – 25 March 2012

  This photographic exhibition highlights recent acquisitions focusing on land and landscape. It includes the works of Canadian photographers Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Geneviève Cadieux, Normand Rajotte, Bill Vazan and Shelley Niro.
  Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet

  Rideau Chapel

  17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
   

  Learn more

  open
• event
  Exhibition

  The Clock

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Catch the Canadian premiere of Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time.

  No reservation and space is limited. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

  gallery.ca/theclock/

  Learn more

  open
• 11:00 AM
  studio
  Workshops

  Artissimo

  Duration : 5h

  Hands-on activities for families in the Great Hall.

  Artissimo is offered daily from 3 to 18 March during the Ontario and Quebec March Breaks.

  open
• 11:15 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C201a

  Featured artwork for this talk: TThe Virgin and Child with St. Anthony Abbot and a Donor by Hans Memling

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 11:45 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A102

  Featured artwork for this talk: Josephte Ourné by Joseph Légaré

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 1:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C201a

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Virgin and Child with St. Anthony Abbot and a Donor by Hans Memling

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 1:45 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A102

  Featured artwork for this talk: Josephte Ourné by Joseph Légaré

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  open
• 2:00 PM
  film
  Films

  Series on American photographers

  Saturday afternoon film series on American Photographers 1900–1950. Free admission. In English unless otherwise indicated. In the Lecture Hall.

  Learn more

  open
• 2:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Made in America Talks (French only)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  10-minute talks in French on a theme from the exhibition Made in America.

  open