Two years earlier the painting Whatif/Twilight had suffered serious damage in a flood. The artist, Ron Moppett, offered it to the gallery — if it could be fixed.
The Venice Art Biennial is the Olympics of contemporary art and draws half a million people to Venice, Italy every two years. Unlike the Olympics, however, you aren’t likely to catch highlights from La...
As Canada marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation this summer, Canadian art will be front and centre at the Gallery. In addition to launching Canadian and Indigenous Art: From Time Immemorial to 1967 and...
In the world of Canadian art history, it is hard to imagine a more encyclopedic or prodigiously active mind than that of author-curator Robert Stacey. Now, in the recently launched 2017 Volume 8 of the...
In preparation for the launch of the new Canadian and Indigenous Galleries in June 2017, the role of NGC’s Restoration and Conservation Laboratory has been to focus conservation treatments on select works of...
This winter, aficionados of Canadian contemporary and Indigenous art won’t want to miss a special display in Upper Contemporary Gallery B205 at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC).
Katerina Atanassova is speaking animatedly in her office overlooking the Ottawa River, surrounded by books on the history of Canadian art, and tracing lines on a floor plan. “One of the main reasons for...
Bouquet of Flowers in a Faience Vase (c. 1625) by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678) has long been part of the national collection, and is well known to those familiar with the European galleries. Visitors...
Kitty Scott is a curatorial advisor for the Biennale de Montréal 2016 Le Grand Balcon, on view until January at a number of locations throughout Montreal. In 2017, she will curate Canadian artist Geoffrey...
In a recently published e-book by National Gallery of Canada curator Christine Lalonde, Pitseolak Ashoona’s work is given the comprehensive treatment befitting one of Canada’s most celebrated artists...
