Winners of the 2014 GG Medals in Architecture will travel to Ottawa to present their projects to the public in a special free evening at the National Gallery of Canada on May 12. The 12 winners, announced last...
When Brydon Smith first saw Dan Flavin’s minimalist fluorescent light sculptures, he was intrigued. In fact, he didn’t quite understand them. Could a fluorescent tube be art?
In this video Paul Lang, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada, and Ian Thom, the Vancouver Art Gallery's Senior Curator of Historical Art, sit down for an informal chat in front...
In this article, NGC conservation fellow Fiona Beckett offers an insightful behind-the-scenes look at the recent treatment of Thomas Couture's Supper at the Maison d'Or .
In this video Stephen Gritt, Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the National Gallery of Canada, discusses the year-long cleaning and restoration of Thomas Couture's Supper at the Maison d'Or ...
With 65 paintings and sculptures by such iconic figures as Kandinsky, Derain, Picasso, Cézanne, Chagall, Gauguin, Matisse, Modigliani, Mondrian and Seurat, The Great Upheaval: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim...
December 19th marks NGC Magazine’s One-Year Anniversary! Thanks to our readers and our contributors, our pilot year has proven a great success. As we move into our second year, keep an eye out for more “up...
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld used to claim that his seminal TV show Seinfeld was “a show about nothing.” What being “about nothing” really meant was, it could be about anything. In other words, Seinfeld had given...
Laure Prouvost, an artist whose work has been described as a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, is the winner of this year’s £25,000 Turner Prize. Considered by many to be the most important and prestigious award for the...
After casting more than 25,000 votes, the public has chosen Canadian artist Erin Shirreff as the winner of the 2013 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize. Known as Canada’s leading international contemporary...
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