At the National Gallery of Canada, art in—and for—a time of crisis
Paul Wells: How Canada’s national gallery and its director, Alexandra Suda, have been working to ’keep the doors open’ to new art and new realities
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The long, dark past behind the National Gallery’s latest acquisition
John Geddes: The painting shows ’a peaceful, rich life’. In reality, the Nazis murdered the painting’s Jewish owner and the artist was on the Nazi side.
The person with the most pressure-packed job in Canadian art
Alexandra Suda wants to bring the crowds to a livelier National Gallery of Canada. Think ‘Voice of Fire’.
The fraught case of the National Gallery’s plan to sell a Chagall painting
How the federal museum’s scheme to sell one high-priced painting to pay for another fell apart
How Indigenous stories are taking centre stage in Ottawa
Canadians visiting the nation’s capital are suddenly seeing a lot more First Nations, Inuit and Métis content at the big cultural showcases
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
A different side of Picasso, artist and beast
A rare, complete look at his masterpiece 1930s prints
What it feels like to be in the vaults at the National Gallery of Canada
Tour the vaults at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for a behind-the-scenes look at where some of our country’s most prized artwork is meticulously stored.
Seeing Matisse’s inspiration in the new Jack Bush show
Bush is "fantastique!" says one Matisse expert