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Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art
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National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive,
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The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013
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National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1N 9N4
Daily: 10 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday: 10 am - 8:30 pm
(exceptions)
National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1N 9N4
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Featured artwork for this talk: Sister Saint-Alphonse by Antoine Plamondon
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Bacchus et Ariane by Antoine-Jean Gros
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Sister Saint-Alphonse by Antoine Plamondon
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Bacchus et Ariane by Antoine-Jean Gros
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Featured artwork for this talk: Ptarmigan Vase by George Paulding Farnham
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: La Gouvernante by Jean-Siméon Chardin
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool by Edward Wadsworth
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: La Gouvernante by Jean-Siméon Chardin
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Featured artwork for this talk: Picnic with Birthday Cake and Blue Sky by Gathie Falk
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Paysage à Pont-Aven by Paul Sérusier
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Artist and Shaman between Two Worlds by Norval (called Copper Thunderbird) Morrisseau
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Paysage à Pont-Aven by Paul Sérusier
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Tour Sakahàn
Join a one-hour drop-in tour for adults.
In English. Ticket required - $7/person plus Gallery admission.
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Featured artwork for this talk: Ludivine by Edwin Holgate
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: La cathédrale de Salisbury vue des jardins de l'évêché by John Constable
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Wagon I by David Smith
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: La cathédrale de Salisbury vue des jardins de l'évêché by John Constable
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Featured artwork for this talk: Self-Portrait by Lilias Torrance Newton
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Mercure et Argus by J.M.W. Turner
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: A Meeting of the School Trustees by Robert Harris
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Mercure et Argus by J.M.W. Turner
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Vénus by Lucas (l'aîné) Cranach
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: White Flower I by Agnes Martin
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Vénus by Lucas (l'aîné) Cranach
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: White Flower I by Agnes Martin
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Have your portrait taken by artist Jeff Thomas at the Samuel de Champlain monument at Nepean Point.
Featured artwork for this talk: Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Michel Monet on the Banks of the Epte by Claude Monet
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Adèle Fortier by Antoine Plamondon
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Mr. and Mrs. William Croscup's Painted Room by Unknown (Canadian - early 19th century ?)
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Adèle Fortier by Antoine Plamondon
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Sakahàn
This exhibition, comprising over 100 works by more than 70 renowned and emerging artists from around the world, is the National Gallery of Canada’s largest survey of recent indigenous art.
In French. Ticket required.
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.
22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.
Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
The National Gallery of Canada will exhibit the 12 finalist artworks submitted to So You Want To Be An Artist? and that garnered the most votes online this winter. The annual contest is open to all Canadians aged 16 to 19 and showcases their creativity. A jury appointed by the NGC will evaluate the artworks based on: the clarity of the theme and message; originality and imaginativeness; and the thought and feeling provoked in the viewer. Winners will be announced mid-June.
Featured artwork for this talk: Tomb of General Brock, Queenston Heights, Ontario by Thomas Cole
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Œil surnaturel by Robert Davidson
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Tomb of General Brock, Queenston Heights, Ontario by Thomas Cole
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Featured artwork for this talk: Œil surnaturel by Robert Davidson
These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.
Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art
17 May 2013 -
02 Sep 2013
Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens
03 May 2013 -
02 Sep 2013
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| Friday | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Saturday | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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