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...
Whether you’re encountering Joseph Beuys for the first time, or have admired his work for years, a new exhibition at the National Gallery provides a fascinating look at one of the most influential artists of...
In the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition Monet: A Bridge to Modernity , on view until February 15, Jules Andrieu’s photographs of ruins in and around Paris, selected from the Gallery`s own collection,...
In this video Stephen Gritt, the National Gallery of Canada’s Director of Conservation and Technical Research, discusses the restoration of Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: the Sun in a Fog (1903). The painting...
Young Canadian artists from across the country have answered the National Gallery’s recent call by picking up pencils, paintbrushes, ink jars and cameras to create some highly expressive works of art. The...
