Comedian Jerry Seinfeld used to claim that his seminal TV show Seinfeld was “a show about nothing.” What being “about nothing” really meant was, it could be about anything. In other words, Seinfeld had given...
Laure Prouvost, an artist whose work has been described as a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, is the winner of this year’s £25,000 Turner Prize. Considered by many to be the most important and prestigious award for the...
After casting more than 25,000 votes, the public has chosen Canadian artist Erin Shirreff as the winner of the 2013 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize. Known as Canada’s leading international contemporary...
Canadian artist A.Y. Jackson and German artist Otto Dix came from different countries, different backgrounds and had vastly different artistic styles. They also fought on opposing sides during the First World...
A Vancouver painter who likes to play with surface illusions and notions of deception is the winner of the 15th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Paul Lang remembers exactly when he first laid eyes on the Le Pont de bois more than a decade ago at an exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in December 2000. “I have to say it is a picture I never forgot,”...
In 2011, China’s Ai Weiwei made international headlines not for his art, but rather his incarceration at the hands of Chinese authorities under charges of tax evasion . For anyone watching Ai’s dramatic...
M.C. Escher's letters range in date from 1958 to 1972 when he died, at the age of 73. There is insight, humour, affectionate anxiety about his family, and occasional grumpiness, especially about his health and...
Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens is the first exhibition in a series that is devoted to exploring and animating key works from the National Gallery of Canada's collection. In this video,...
Samuel de Champlain may have been dead for nearly four centuries, but later this week, visitors to Nepean Point behind the National Gallery will get the chance to see him “come alive” in a stunning interactive...
