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...
The doors to the National Gallery’s newly transformed Canadian and Indigenous Galleries are about to open upon a magnificent display of art. With almost 800 works dating from 5,000 years ago to 1967, Canadian...
Sometimes the most compelling thing about a work of art is the artist behind it. Are they messy or neat when they work? Spacious studio or dining room table? Do they draw inspiration from rural surroundings,...
This spring, three Canadian women artists got together at the National Gallery of Canada for an informal public conversation in support of the Canadian Photography Institute exhibition Photography in Canada:...
Despite his almost sole focus on the American experience, a major retrospective of photographer Walker Evans’ work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris represents, in a strange way, a kind of homecoming for the...
In this interview, Greg Hill, Audain Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, talks about the importance of Carl Beam's Voyage and how it fits within the narrative in Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present.
In this video, Faye HeavyShield discusses how she created her work Body of Land, on view at the National Gallery of Canada as part of Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present.
