Part documentary, part science fiction movie, part musical, A Journey That Wasn’t goes in search of the soul of the Antarctic. It melds fact and fiction, conjuring the many impulses—primal, colonial,...
Early on a grey and drizzly Sunday morning, I climbed into a truck in Ottawa to begin a non-stop 2,650-kilometre journey south. I had spent the previous two months finishing the restoration of a painting.....
In 1961, McCullin travelled to Berlin to photograph the construction of the Berlin Wall, winning the British Press Award for his work. In 1964, he covered the war in Cyprus and the Stanleyville massacres in...
The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under fifty, for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of work in the twelve months leading up to the nomination deadline. It is widely recognised as...
Marcel Dzama’s work is populated by a cast of recurring characters: bears, bats, and trees; masked assassins, military officers and acrobatic performers.
Lynne Marsh was born in Vancouver in 1969, and now divides her time between Berlin, London and Montreal. Working with sound and video installations, she is interested in the role that architecture plays in...
Interested in the transfer of energy from one form to another, and the ways in which sculpture might be able to harness this life force, Altmejd conceives his works as elaborate stage sets, upon which he can...
After a successful tour across Europe, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven is back in Canada, where there’s still time to see some of our country’s most iconic works under one roof before the...
During the late 1920s and 1930s, André Biéler produced an important body of prints and paints in tempera, watercolour, casein and oil. He painted few large oils, however, and Before the Auction is his largest...
