Bringing together different cultures under one roof is something art museums do well. They know how to hang an ancient Indian watercolour beside a Canadian photograph, or place works by a French Impressionist...
A Study in Contrast: Sybil Andrews and Gwenda Morgan features more than 60 works examining how two artists, both educated at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London, England, went on to develop very...
Lisette Model's famous Coney Island Bather, New York (c. 1939–July 1941) is bold and exuberant, revealing the eccentricities of human subjects with tenderness and humour. It is also one of over two hundred...
For anyone whose interest in Painters Eleven has been piqued by the National Gallery’s Jack Bush retrospective, a trip to The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is probably in order.
Dr. Nathan Stolow died on October 28 in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the age of 86. During his career as a conservation scientist, he made major contributions to our knowledge of art materials and technique, as...
The Turner Prize, set up in 1984, is an annual contemporary art prize awarded to a British artist under the age of 50 for an exhibition or presentation of their work in the year leading up to the award’s...
If Canada gave out titles for Living National Treasures, graphic designer Eiko Emori would certainly qualify. From the 1960s to the 1990s, as an independent design consultant, Ms. Emori produced close to forty...
Think you know Emily Carr? Think again. A major exhibition at one of the Britain’s most distinguished galleries is bringing a fresh perspective to the work of the iconic Canadian artist.
Over a three-day period, NGC Director Marc Mayer feasted on five centuries of art, ranging from Renaissance woodcuts and the sublime Veronese to Matisse’s cut-outs and the post-modern antics of Martin Creed...
The National Gallery of Canada has two very special visitors on long-term loan: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculptures, Neapolitan Fisherboy with Shell and Girl with a Shell , currently on view in the European...
