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...
Images are central to our modern lives in ways that earlier generations could scarcely have imagined. Thanks to major gifts from Scotiabank and collector David Thomson, the new Canadian Photography Institute...
This exhibition, on at the National Gallery of Canada Library until March 2016, offers a rare glimpse of Pre-Raphaelite book and magazine illustrations published during the second half of the nineteenth...
