The Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG) is about to be overrun by monsters—beautiful ones. The British Columbia gallery is the most recent venue for the National Gallery of Canada touring exhibition, Beautiful Monsters...
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...
August Sander is still recognized as one of the great photographers of the 20th century—mainly for his vast oeuvre of portraits, although he captured equally compelling images of landscapes and architecture...
Curator Sarah Boucher figures the timing could not have been better. With Sherbrooke, Quebec hosting the 2013 Canada Summer Games in August, she wanted to make sure the city’s Museum of Fine Arts had an...
They have been well-loved and boasted the scrapes, scratches and nicks to prove it. But after “a major clean-up,” a fresh coat of paint and a thorough wax job, Keith Haring’s iconic sculptures are ready to be...
He is a painter, sculptor, musician and filmmaker and, at 84 years old, Canadian artist Michael Snow is still surprising the art world. Sometimes he’s still surprising himself.
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...
Fred Herzog figures he has taken hundreds of thousands of photographs in over 40 countries, and more cities than he can name. At the age of 82, he is still driven to capture the essence of back alleys, out-of-...
Escher was fascinated by infinity, math and physics, not to mention light, color and printmaking. Those combined passions led him to create art that is arguably unparalleled for its depth and complexity.
