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...
After a successful run at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), a slightly different version of the exhibition Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque has opened in Toronto. The presentation at the...
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...
The Rube Goldberg machine has a long and zany history. A homemade contraption that uses wheels, gears, ropes, pulleys and pendulums to create an elaborate chain reaction, it has appeared in myriad forms in...
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...
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 (...
Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet has been presented in gallery spaces and unusual places around the world to rave reviews—including The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the...
Between the driving of the Last Spike in the transcontinental railway to the end of the First World War, Canada at the turn of the twentieth century began its transformation from a fragmented colony to a...
Opening on 2 November, Through the Eye is part of the NGC@MOCCA program, a special series of MOCCA exhibitions featuring works from the NGC’s contemporary art holdings. The two institutions teamed up with the...
