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Love lost: tales of loss and despair

Artists and authors have often preferred to depict doomed and despairing love, for images of troubled and failed relationships are charged with compelling drama.

Tranquility and Harmony: Carl Moll's Painting of Family Life

Carl Moll's painting "At the Lunch Table" captures a quiet moment of daily life, a snapshot of serenity and calm expressed in his meticulous and illuminated style.

Stepping Stones: Expanding the Otherworldly Universe of M.C. Escher

With his incomparable printmaking skills, the graphic artist M.C. Escher created extraordinary visual worlds in his realist style. The latest donation by his son George Escher includes some of the rarest works...

The Great War: A Hundred Years On

During the First World War many Canadian and British artists confronted and recorded the devastation and horror of the 'War to End all Wars'.

Masks and metaphors: Rosalind Fox Solomon’s "Hallowe’en"

Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon wants her images to evoke individual interpretation as well as draw a strong or unexpected emotional response.

How Collections are Made and Shaped: Deaccessioning de-mythified

The life of a public collection is marked by continual review, ensuring that it fulfills its mission and remains relevant.

Andrew Wright’s Photography and the Art of Trespassing

Wright’s photography can confound, turn askew, upset or even antagonize, but it always prompts a new perspective and perhaps greater clarity.

Thomas Cole: a Fresh Look at the Father of American Landscape

Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, features in a thoughtful exhibition where he emerges as an internationally connected artist.

Talking Mary Pratt

Talking Mary Pratt

Mary Pratt’s ‘Red Currant Jelly’: Vision Slowed Down

Mary Pratt was one of Canada’s great realist painters. Curators Jonathan Shaughnessy and Mireille Eagan discuss her painting ‘Red Currant Jelly’ in the context of her work.

The Shaman’s Legacy: The Inuit Angakuq Coat from Igloolik

A Shaman's experience inspired a unique work of wearable art, as beautiful in technique as it is bold in design.
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