Canadian illustration, family ties and national identity are all at the heart of the Ottawa Art Gallery’s new exhibit
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Rediscovering the Group of Seven
This year will mark the 100th anniversary of the Group of Seven’s first exhibition. John Geddes revisits the group’s work in a bid to see their art as art, rather than ‘the over-familiar illustrations of a nation-building saga.’
The End: Ahmoo Angeconeb, 1955–2017
After residential school, he vowed to go back to his traditional ways. As an artist, his work became known across Europe.
Geoffrey Farmer’s tour de force at the Venice Biennale
The most inventive and exciting Canadian project at the art show in years
An iconic Canadian painting gets a facelift and reveals its secrets
The first restoration of ‘A Meeting of the School Trustees’ in a century has revealed a much brighter painting with a new, more hopeful meaning
Review: Four decades of Canadian photography
Black-and-white street snaps and full-colour studio confections capture photographic fidelity in a National Gallery of Canada retrospective
Where are Canada’s starring artists?
Canadian art has its lovers and its haters, but it needs a new funding model—and more Canadian eyes on it
In Canada, no nudes is good nudes
A new exhibit exposes our squeamishness about nakedness in art
Every object in the ROM has a story
Twenty-one writers celebrate 21 objects from the Royal Ontario Museum collection
A Q&A with the curator of the National Gallery’s surprising show
A conversation with Charles Hill and his exhibit looking at Canadian art from 1890 to 1918, an ‘era of optimism’