An exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery is challenging perceptions and prejudices about Realist art. John Hall: Travelling Light. A forty-five-year survey of paintings examines the career of Kelowna-based...
This spring, the Vancouver Art Gallery is hosting a bash celebrating the Birth of the Modern. From Marcel Duchamp to Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Rauschenberg to John Cage, and Joyce Wieland to Jeff Koons, MashUp...
Upcycling is all the rage these days in both art and craft, but many National Gallery visitors may not realize that one of the most exquisite objects on display in the international galleries is an example of...
Her real name was Veronica Foster, but she was better known as “Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl,” Canada’s Second World War sweetheart. Ronnie worked the assembly line at the John Inglis Co. in Toronto, making Bren...
In the exhibition Lifelines: Indigenous Contemporary Art from Australia , now on at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, lines are viewed as the threads binding stories together. Featuring a...
Pink with Border (1967) is an important example of Bush’s work from the late 1960s — arguably the artist’s most accomplished period. Remarkable in its simplicity and exuberance, this new addition to the NGC's...
In the early 1850s, Dante Gabriel Rossetti began painting a series of events from La Vita Nuova (1295), the autobiography of the poet Dante’s youth and early manhood. The National Gallery’s study references a...
Fiona Banner’s 10-minute video Chinook (2013) begins with an eponymous Chinook helicopter taking off at the annual Waddington International Airshow in the U.K. The audience in the film appears seduced by the...
If you have recently visited the European galleries at the National Gallery of Canada, you might have noticed some rather spectacular additions, including Gustave Doré’s large painting, Souvenir of Loch Lomond...
Looking for all the world as if she’s about to step off her pedestal and back into the intricate pattern of a nineteenth-century dance, Dancer (1818–1822) by Antonio Canova (1757–1822) is a striking feature of...
