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...
The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography is the latest exhibition of photographs to open at the National Gallery, and part of the international commemoration of the start of the First World War a...
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...
The Masterpiece in Focus exhibition Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine and The West Wind attempts to pull back the curtain of mythology and familiarity framing Thomson’s last two great paintings to reveal the master...
Up in the National Gallery’s contemporary galleries, there is a sprawling, highly engaging work of art that looks decidedly like a bar. Indeed, … from the Transit Bar , created in 1992 by the internationally...
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...
Charles Edenshaw is regarded as one of the Northwest Coast's most accomplished and influential artists. Organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery the exhibition Charles Edenshaw offers a rare...
John Ruskin’s watercolour drawing of the Ca d’Oro in Venice is like the man himself: brilliant, intense, poetic and idiosyncratic. While a third of the work is rendered in meticulous detail, with a rhythmic...
In this video Christopher Davidson, NGC curatorial assistant of Canadian art, introduces the recently installed exhibition of works in plastic in gallery B107, currently on view at the National Gallery of...
