“The animals have taken over the parlour,” laughs Mary Anne Barkhouse, a Kwakiutl artist, as she describes her newest exhibition at the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Alberta.
Since 2010, the National Gallery of Canada has been contextualizing its permanent collection of contemporary art through Biennial exhibitions that showcase its most recent acquisitions.
One of Canada’s foremost modernist painters, James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) had a unique genius for distilling the life that swirled around him in markets, cafés, and parks into timeless moments.
A bomb, a nun, and a pair of shiny black boots hang together as a powerful trio of paintings that greet viewers at the exhibition of this year’s finalists for the 19th annual RBC Painting Competition.
Featuring winning books from this year’s Awards, the exhibition celebrates the impressive work of book designers and encourages visitors to slow down and appreciate the beauty that can be found inside and...
When The Globe and Mail decided to move from its headquarters on Front Street to a new building on King Street in Toronto, a team was faced with the daunting task of deaccessioning more than 750,000...
As one of Canada’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Alex Janvier’s prolific artistic output was on full display recently at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in the largest and most comprehensive...
Though known to many as a post-impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was in fact an accomplished sculptor, ceramist, printmaker and decorator.
Throughout the summer, fans of Pablo Picasso are in for a major treat at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG). The WAG’s Picasso experience includes two exhibitions: Picasso: Man and Beast. The Vollard Suite of...
