An interview with Alex Janvier, whose major retrospective — on view at the National Gallery of Canada until April 17, 2017 — celebrates the artist’s lifetime of creativity, knowledge and perspective, gained...
The thirty-four circular paintings and watercolours floating on a wall of deep blue at the entrance to the exhibition Alex Janvier are like celestial bodies. Luminous, rich and varied, some small and some...
Bharti Kher's nothing marks the perimeter, just a hollow sound echoes is part of an installation of works from the national collection, on view until January 2017, that use pattern, abstraction, and decorative...
In a striking display on view in the National Gallery of Canada’s contemporary gallery B109, Rhiannon Vogl, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the NGC, has brought together eleven works on paper by five...
Known as the Poet of Prague for his lyrical views of Bohemia’s capital, Josef Sudek was one of the 20th century’s most important and prolific photographers, and a key figure in the Czech avant-garde scene of...
Celebrated for an art practice incorporating sculpture and installation, performance and theory, Joseph Beuys is also renowned for radically challenging artistic conventions. An exhibition now on view at the...
Anne Chu is not for the faint of heart. An encounter with her rearing Single Bear (Polyester) is not unlike meeting a bear in the wild: intimidating and awe-inspiring. In an installation currently on view at...
One of the most exciting exhibition spaces in the new Canadian Photography Institute Galleries — located on Level 2 of the NGC in the former Prints, Drawings and Photography temporary exhibitions space — is...
Cutline offers an immersive view of Canadian society and the newspaper industry in a bygone era — a time when most faces in the news were male and white, when brim hats and fur coats were in style, when...
Announced almost one year ago, the CPI brings together three outstanding collections of photographs. The cornerstone is the NGC Photographs Collection, which was started in 1967 and now numbers more than 40,...
