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...
The Jack Pine and The West Wind have been reunited once again at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Into the Woods: Two Icons Revisited . This special exhibition encourages visitors to see these paintings,...
Born in London, England in 1853, photographer Frederick H. Evans b egan his career as a bookseller in London’s Cheapside, where he befriended writers, artists and intellectuals such as George Bernard Shaw and...
DHC/ART’s survey exhibition of British artist Yinka Shonibare’s multidisciplinary work promises to shine a light on authenticity, the hybrid nature of culture, and how the two relate to one another.
Despite his highly original style — which blended influences from Italy and Flanders — little is actually known about Bernardo Cavallino (1616–1656). We do know that he was born in Naples, that he probably...
