Les Fleurs du Mal , the most famous work of the poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), was published in 1857. Many of the themes of his poems are...
Past Exhibitions
May 26, 2014 to August 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 to August 17, 2014
Vera Frenkel’s …from the Transit Bar is a seminal work of Canadian contemporary art, comprising video, sculpture, architecture, readymade material...
March 14, 2014 to September 1, 2014
Library and Archives Canada In partnership with the National Gallery of Canada From the times of early exploration, the Arctic has excited the...
March 7, 2014 to May 25, 2014
Charles Edenshaw is the first major survey of work by the acclaimed 19th-century Haida artist. This comprehensive exhibition of 80 objects presents...
March 1, 2014 to June 8, 2014
Drawn from the NGC collections, this exhibition looks at the ways in which nature has been an enduring subject for artists over the centuries. A...
February 17, 2014 to September 7, 2014
Twenty-eight Meryl Streeps and twenty-three Jack Nicholsons appear intermittently across the fourteen monitors and two darkened rooms that comprise...
February 17, 2014 to August 25, 2014
The NGC presents The Way Things Go (1987). Drawing crowds wherever it has been exhibited, the highly acclaimed 30-minute recording of a spectacular...
February 14, 2014 to May 11, 2014
John Ruskin: Artist and Observer focuses on the creative genius of John Ruskin (1819–1900) as represented in his draughtsmanship. The artist’s...
February 8, 2014 to April 12, 2014
Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque examines a range of contemporary artistic production defined through an emphasis on material...