This splendid red chalk drawing transports viewers to eighteenth-century Rome—then the cultural centre of Europe, with an unparalleled artistic heritage.
we run through a desert on burning FEET, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted is a towering combination of grout, grit and concrete that aims to evoke an experience of the sublime.
Jean-Franҫois Castonguay, Chief, Technical Services talks us through the complications of installing Haida artist Chief James (Jim) Hart's work The Three Watchmen at the corner of Sussex Drive and Saint...
This video showing the installation of Brian Jungen's Court is accompanied by a Q & A with Vancouver businessman Bob Rennie who explains not only why he donated the work to the National Gallery, but the...
The Gallery’s team, with the help of Bourgeois’ long-time assistant Jerry Gorovoy, talk us through the process, explaining how this installation method was how the artist first intended her works to be viewed.
In the late 1990s, some 70 years after its purchase, Canada’s only known work by Venetian painter Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian, was quietly relegated to the storage vaults at the National Gallery of Canada...
John Scott’s Trans Am Apocalypse No 2. , was no ordinary installation. This artwork presented us with one of those rare occasions when the entire Technical Services team had to work together on a single task...
Before The Jack Pine left Canada it underwent the most extensive cleaning and restoration in its history. This short, behind the scenes video, takes you through just how that restoration was done.
The National Gallery of Canada's Director of Conservation and Technical Research, Stephen Gritt, takes us through his preparation of the Gallery's The Arrest of Christ by Matthias Stom in advance of our 2011...
