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...
Brian Jungen’s Shapeshifter (2000) and Vienna (2003) are currently on view together at the NGC. Although both works are part of the national collection, such is their size — at 6.6 metres (21 feet) and 8.5...
The exhibition Les Levine: Transmedia , on view at Oakville Galleries, brings together a selection of Les Levine’s works from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. “These were the works by which he first came to...
Evoking comparisons with the work of artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and other masters of light, Sunshine in the Drawing Room (1910) by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916) is a major new addition to the National...
As a multifaceted art institution, the National Gallery of Canada is often more interested in the artist who painted a portrait than its subject. This painting, however, is an exception to the rule. In this...
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...
Drawn towards a source of light, inspiration or a divinity, artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Lawren S. Harris, Edvard Munch and Emily Carr immersed themselves in the spiritual, even the mystical...
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...
