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...
When the Oshawa Sports Centre was announced as the boxing venue for this summer’s Pan Am Games, staff at the adjacent Robert McLaughlin Gallery decided they wanted to be part of the celebration of sport. Linda...
As a painting progresses from original sketch to underdrawing on canvas to finished work, it usually undergoes a number of changes along the way. An exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum takes an in-depth...
Internationally acclaimed Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer — familiar to National Gallery visitors for the astonishing Leaves of Grass , among other works — is the subject of an extensive mid-career survey in...
