A new exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada’s Library — Then Again: A Celebration of Art Metropole’s 40th Anniversary — explores Art Metropole’s history and continuing legacy through a broad selection...
In this video, we travel behind the scenes to see how the National Gallery of Canada installed The Poem of the Vine (1877–82), a bronze sculpture by Gustave Doré measuring four metres in height and weighing 2...
In this video, Chief James Hart discusses his great-great-grandfather Charles Edenshaw. The Charles Edenshaw exhibition is on view at the NGC until May 25, 2014.
From the times of early exploration, the Arctic, with its awe-inspiring icebergs, barren landscapes and intrepid peoples, has excited the imagination. Arctic Images from the Turn of the Twentieth Century is a...
Anyone who’s seen Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 may experience a sense of déjà vu on first encountering Tristram Lansdowne’s 2012 watercolour drawing Axis Mundi . In it, a series of interlocking modules—echoes of...
“Prof. Marshall McLuhan’s medium-is-the-message philosophy is just hokum and hogwash,” wrote Canadian artist Fritz Brandtner (1896–1969) on his copy of McLuhan’s Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (...
After opening to critical acclaim at the National Gallery last February, Don McCullin: A Retrospective is showing at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from 1 November 2013 to 11 January 2014. Critics called the...
Some of the first photographs of life in Canada come not from the cameras of professional photographers, but from men tasked with recording data for land and water surveys and engineering projects. The work of...
What do Joanna Kramer, Sophie Zawistowska and Karen Blixen have in common? They are all characters played by Meryl Streep over her distinguished 30-year film career. And they all appear, along with a large...
