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A World of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery
Taipei :: Taiwan | 3 days ago
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This is a breathtaking exhibition, the largest in our 130 year history. Marc Mayer, National Gallery of Canada director and CEO You may also like In the 1920s, it was anthropologists at museums around the world who turned their attention to what was
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Sakahan exhibit aims to ‘explode the box' of aboriginal art in Canada
Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
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EDT Detail of Rebecca Belmore Fringe, 2008 Cibachrome transparency in fluorescent lightbox (ed...National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Photo The knock on Sakahan Algonquin for to light a fire will be, of course, that it ghettoizes aboriginal or native
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14-hour days, $1.5-million cost, a six-month run: How Canadian Shary Boyle is prepping for the Venice Biennale
Venice :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Detail, projection view Courtesy the artist and Jessica Bradley Inc. gallery Detail from Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows, The Monkey and the Mermaid, 2010, performance still. Visual arts gallery Sipping a glass of Argentinian red wine, she
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Scotiabank Photography Award finalists announced
Vancouver :: Canada | 3 months ago
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The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Mar. 05 2013, 11:30 AM EST Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 05 2013, 11:57 AM EST Canada's richest photography prize moved a step closer to choosing its third laureate on Tuesday, as the jury for the Scotiabank
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Sakahan: International indigenous art lights a fire in Ottawa
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Sakahan, an international indigenous art exhibition coming soon to the National Gallery of Canada, offers an insight into the complex concerns of indigenous peoples, not just in Canada, but around the world. Sakahan means to light a fire in the
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How New Brunswick's Beaverbrook Art Gallery is finally getting its big break
Mobile :: AL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Story video Born in Ontario, raised in New Brunswick (a province for which he retained a lifelong affection), he was the son of a Presbyterian minister who, upon immigrating to the U.K...But Beaverbrook also had what one of his biographers called a
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National Gallery Yields Unexpected Treasure
Ottawa :: Canada | 5 months ago
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December 19, 2012 Portrait of Daniele Barbaro (1514-1570) by Titian, oil on canvas. The painting was purchased by the National Gallery in 1928 and later restored. (National Gallery of Canada) After a recent investigation and restoration, a long-
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Winnipeg to host works from National Gallery
Edmonton :: Canada | 9 months ago
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EDT The Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada have inked a three-year deal that will see the WAG set aside space dedicated to showing works from the Ottawa institution's permanent collection. The arrangement, beginning in 2013, the
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Tweeting Tom Thomson
Toronto :: Canada | 12 months ago
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Nearly a century after his mysterious death, the evocative work and tale of Canadian art legend Tom Thomson continue to captivate us. But have you ever wondered what he would have been like on Twitter ? Tom Thomson's mysterious death contributes to
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At Ottawa exhibition, you'll see another van Gogh
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 year ago
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We associate him with sunflowers, swirling bold brushwork, starry nights, the colour yellow and the details of an incomparably dramatic life. After dabbling in a number of professions, Vincent van Gogh became an artist at age 27. He painted so
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