
National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Join Jonathan Shaughnessy, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, has he takes you through the world of "David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream"...Thursday, November 12th at 6pm...

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Check out the Globe and Mail's terrific review of the National Gallery's current exhibit "Uuturautit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking"...it's well worth the read!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts /uuturautit-honouring-the-past-drawing-o n-the-future/article1342250/
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An exhibition at the National Gallery celebrates 50 years of classic Inuit art from Cape Dorset. But it also honours the region's contemporary artists painting an entirely different picture of their ancient culture

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Check out "Red Heroine"...the silent Kung Fu film being shown November 14th at 3pm...

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Visit the exhibition "David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream" with the artist!!! He will taking visitors on a tour of his new exhibit this coming Friday, November 6th, at 12:15pm...you don't want to miss it!!

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Don't miss hearing Denise Leclerc, curator of Modern Canadian Art, give her fascinating talk on "The Updated Installation of the Modern Canadian Galleries" this Thursday evening at 6pm...

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Join us Thursday evening at 6pm in the Contemporary Galleries for the opening of David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream...
http://www.gallery.ca/english/592.htm#ex hib2762
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These works were executed over the past five years by Canadian multimedia artist David Hoffos. The series consists primarily of small, realistic-looking dioramas of dwelling spaces as well as urban and ...

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One of Warhol’s former assistants, who was given a 1965 self-portrait as a reward for her hard work, has decided to part with the painting. Sotheby’s is selling it on Nov. 11.

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Jungen says that one of the best ways to get people to look at artwork is to create it out of materials that they recognize. So Jungen uses everything from basketball sneakers, to plastic chairs to create work inspired by Native American culture.

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada For those interested in Inuit Art, see a slideshow of Kenojuak Ashevak as she is honoured in Iqaluit by following this link. Or, better yet, come to the NGC to see Kenojuak's work in the exhibition "Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking".
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These pics are from an art show and sale that opened June 20 at the Nunatta Sunaqutangit Museum in Iqaluit, held to honour 82-year-old Kenojuak Ashevak and the 50th birthday of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Join us at 6pm this evening to celebrate the opening of this monumental exhibition:
The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig:
A Retrospective Exhibition.
All fans of the NGC's facebook page are invited to tonight's very special Vernissage. In the Great Hall from 6-8pm.
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A woman who artist Norval Morrisseau dubbed “Picasso’s grandmother” will be the first First Nations female artist to have a solo show at the National Gallery of Canada.

National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
The word is out!
(But you already knew. As fans of the NGC's facebook page, you were the first to find out way back on September 17th)

Source: www.artdaily.com
This year, Cape Dorset—or Kinngait as it is locally known in Nunavut—celebrates 50 years of making prints. In tribute to this significant anniversary and the continued dynamism of the Kinngait Studios artists today, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents "Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 5...

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National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
"Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking"
opens today!
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Prized Inuit artwork from the Kinngait print shop in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, was celebrated in an Iqaluit museum Thursday night, marking the Cape Dorset studio's 50th anniversary.




















