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Making it Meaningful: The Art of Interpretation

People enter works in different ways, and there is no right or wrong way to do so. There is no single way to interpret art. It's all very personal.

Dark Side of the Moon: Forensic Analysis of Lewis M. Rutherfurd's "Moon"

Forensic analysis of Lewis M. Rutherfurd’s Moon reveals intriguing details about the object’s support and its display history.

Tragedy beyond the canvas: Gustav Klimt's Elisabeth Lederer

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is an imposing, dazzling painting that speaks of the power, elegance and confidence of Vienna’s high society in the early 20th century.

Turner’s technical skill: the making of a watercolour

One of the principal visual artists of the English Romantic Movement, J.M.W. Turner created the watercolour "Forum Romanum" in 1818.

An understated icon: the Canada Pavilion in Venice is reborn

For six decades the Canada Pavilion in Venice’s Giardini di Castello has been showing Canada’s most celebrated artists and, since 1980, architects.

Architectural Vision: Celebrating Thirty Years

Overlooking Parliament, the Ottawa River and the Canadian Museum of History, the National Gallery of Canada has become a place of community.

Portable studios in a pocket: the pochade boxes of Biéler, Morrice and Kelly

The story surrounding a group of pochade boxes in the Restoration and Conservation laboratory reveals the connection between a number of Canadian landscape artists and their particular way of working.

Indigenous Futurism: Transcending the Past, Present and Future

The three-dimensional drawing Untitled (50 Years Co-Op) by Shuvinai Ashoona, an Inuk artist from Cape Dorset, is the first of its kind to be included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Oberlander brings the Canadian Shield inside the National Gallery of Canada

Celebrated landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander was responsible for the National Gallery’s original landscape design in the late 1980s. Now she has taken the opportunity to reimagine a key part of the...

A different kind of souvenir

Alongside the first gallery of the Canadian and Indigenous Galleries is a treasure you will not want to miss: a suite of videos by four Indigenous artists, called Souvenir.