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.
Visitors to the exhibition, Higher States, Lawren Harris and his American Contemporaries , on view at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, will perhaps be surprised not to encounter the paradigmatic...
When Diane Waggoner set out to curate an exhibition on 19th-century American landscape photography for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., she didn’t expect to discover such a clear narrative...
Visitors to Gallery C207 at the National Gallery of Canada will find themselves surrounded by seven landscapes evoking Venice during the Grand Tour. Among these, two paintings by Canaletto and three by Guardi...
Before he conceived of his iconic mountain forms, and before he ventured into abstract compositions, Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970) was inspired by the urban environment of Toronto. Indeed, Harris routinely...
Years ago, when the National Gallery of Canada was located in the former Lorne Building at 90 Elgin Street in Ottawa, one of its most popular “storefront” draws was a display of Nancy Graves’ Camel VI , Camel...
In the exhibition Teresa Margolles: Mundos , on view at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Margolles confronts marginalization, exploring the widespread disappearance and death of women in the perilous...
The Earthlings exhibition, now on view at Esker Foundation in Calgary, features the work of seven contemporary Canadian artists in a fascinating collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
In this time-lapse video, the NGC's Technical Services team takes down Ai Weiwei's majestic and towering sculpture, Tree (2009–2010), which was recently on view in the NGC's Contemporary Galleries.
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...
