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...
It is impossible to spend any time at the National Gallery of Canada without coming face to face with the legacy of its former Director, Jean Sutherland Boggs. Enter through the heavy doors, walk up the long...
I have long admired Rita Letendre, the celebrated Canadian artist known for her dramatic abstract paintings. But I’ve never had a chance to encounter Letendre or hear her talk about her work. The National...
The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a near-contemporary of painter Gustave Doré (1832–1883), and both men found subject matter for their art in mid-19th-century Paris. In addition to being a poet,...
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...
When asked to explain her eerie photographs of uninhabited rooms, American-Canadian photographer Lynne Cohen used to talk about contradictions, artifice, deception and ambiguity. “It is strange how frequently...
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...
Shortly before he passed away on July 16, 2013, distinguished Canadian painter Alex Colville (1920–2013) donated nearly 3,000 preparatory drawings to the collection of the Library and Archives at the National...
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...