Best known for her candid but empathetic shots revealing the peculiarities of average people, Lisette Model is recognized as one of the most innovative photographers of her era.
On August 13,1925, Henri Matisse sent a postcard to Pierre Bonnard that read “Vive la peinture!.” Simple yet effective, the gesture gave rise to a friendship that lasted more than forty years.
Fireworks, balls, hunting parties, concerts and theatre. In an exhibition now on view at the Château de Versailles , just outside of Paris, the pleasures of the courts of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI are...
Now on view at Tate Britain in London, Paul Nash is the most comprehensive exhibition of Nash’s work in a generation. In addition to featuring two paintings from the National Gallery of Canada collection, the...
This fall and winter, the beloved National Gallery of Canada (NGC) painting by Canadian artist Charlotte Schreiber, The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot) , has the honour of being included in an...
Anyone famil iar with the collections of the National Gallery of Canada will know that it contains an extraordinarily broad range of artistic production, both historical and contemporary. The depth and quality...
Regarded as Cardiff’s masterwork , Forty-Part Motet consists of forty separately-recorded choir voices played back through an equal number of high-fidelity speakers mounted on stands. Museum-goers can move...
From the outside it doesn’t look like much: a modest and unadorned plywood box. Yet, when contemporary art curator and sculptor David Norr first experienced The Paradise Institute by Janet Cardiff and George...
