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...
If you’ve ever wandered into a living room, hair salon, storage room or workspace and felt there was something extraordinary about the space—that it hinted of bizarre people or interesting events no longer in...
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...
Celebrating the arrival of spring, Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists Inspired by Nature , is now on view at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Exploring how Nature—in all its richness and diversity—has served as...
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...