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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.

Five Fallacies about Art

Does art have to be beautiful? Is it a luxury? Marc Mayer, Director of the NGC, discusses these and other common fallacies about art in this video.

The Lithographs That Escaped the Halifax Explosion

Correspondence between Eric Brown and Arthur Lismer shows solidarity in the wake of disaster and Lismer’s utmost dedication to art.

Loan of two Klimt paintings offer an unprecedented opportunity for visitors to the National Gallery of Canada

Hope I — the only Klimt painting in a Canadian public collection — will be joined at the Gallery by two more of his works: Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer and Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee.

Sentinels of Time: The Gallery’s Outdoor Sculptures

Made of bronze, sheet metal, carved stone, stainless steel, and even marble, the NGC’s collection of outdoor sculptures are on display to the general public.