Winnipeg would never have known of the relationship between famed 20th-century artist Marc Chagall and Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt, a former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, had it not been for a complicated...
In the new exhibition, Tamayo: A Solitary Mexican Modernist , opening on June 25 at the National Gallery of Canada, Rufino Tamayo’s unique vision is on breathtaking display. Featuring eighteen paintings and a...
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun presents 87 splendid works — mostly painted portraits of royalty, aristocracy, statesmen, artists and family members, but also a charming Alpine landscape and a delightful...
In the exhibition Guerrilla Girls: It’s a Jungle Out There! at the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives — which houses the most complete collection of Guerrilla Girls material in the country —...
In 1926, Coco Chanel launched the little black dress, which would soon become, said American Vogue , “a sort of uniform for all women of taste.” Nearly 150 years earlier, however, there had been a similar...
Over the past forty years, Chris Cran has wandered far and wide, following tributaries through Photorealism, Pop art, Op art and abstraction, making forays into self-portraiture, landscape, still-life and...
Picasso: Man and Beast. The Vollard Suite of Prints presents the complete set of 100 etchings created by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 for the legendary Parisian art dealer and publisher, Ambroise Vollard. A...
Before newspapers entered the digital age, photographs were printed, marked up, and altered entirely by hand. Newsrooms used grease pencil to mark crop lines, applied paint to highlight black and white tones,...
The human body is the subject of a compelling exhibition on view for just five weeks at the National Gallery. Human Scale presents nine of the major contemporary sculptures acquired by the Gallery over the...
Kiki Smith and Tony Smith is a Masterpiece in Focus exhibition that offers an interesting examination of the shifts in art history that took place between the 1960s and the early 2000s: shifts from figuration...
