Art Gallery of Ontario

2023 SOBEY ART AWARD FINALISTS UNVEILED

Retrieved on: 
Monday, June 12, 2023
Musqueam Indian Band, Heart, Sculpture, International, Failure, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Exhibition, Award, SAF, National Gallery of Canada, SAA, Inuvialuit, History, Photography, Creativity, Contemporary art gallery, Venice, Human, NGC, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Short list, Contemporary art, Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Adelaide International (art exhibition), Inuit, Health, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Family, High Line, National Gallery, Film industry, Prairie, Norouzi, Mehra, Atlantic Ocean

OTTAWA, ON, June 12, 2023 /CNW/ - The five shortlisted artists for the 2023 Sobey Art Award , Canada's preeminent prize for contemporary visual artists, were announced today by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Sobey Art Foundation (SAF).

Key Points: 
  • OTTAWA, ON, June 12, 2023 /CNW/ - The five shortlisted artists for the 2023 Sobey Art Award , Canada's preeminent prize for contemporary visual artists, were announced today by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Sobey Art Foundation (SAF).
  • The 2023 Sobey Art Award finalists, from East to West are:
    Séamus Gallagher (Atlantic), a lens-based artist, infusing queer aesthetics with self-portraiture, video game engines, and set construction.
  • "The National Gallery of Canada is very proud to celebrate the 2023 Sobey Art Award finalists.
  • 2022 Sobey Award Award winner, Divya Mehra
    In announcing the 2023 Shortlist, the NGC and the SAF would also like to recognize Divya Mehra (Prairies and North), winner of the 2022 Award.

Peggy Raises $10.8 Million, Introduces a Way for Artists to Earn Royalties With the Official Launch of Its App

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Arts, Museums, Entertainment, Apps, Applications, Technology, Mobile Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, VC, EBay, House, NADA, Trust, Art Gallery of Ontario, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale, Smartphone, NYSE, Live Nation Entertainment, Artificial intelligence, Billionaire, LYV, Art, Movement, CAD, IOS, Android, Kasmin Gallery, Video game, Music, Management, Interior design, Cryptocurrency, Trustee, Airbnb, Kijiji

With Peggy, artists across the globe can earn royalties and collectors have the flexibility to resell.

Key Points: 
  • With Peggy, artists across the globe can earn royalties and collectors have the flexibility to resell.
  • By enabling collectors to reliably and independently authenticate artwork, Peggy opens the door to secure reselling while continuing to support artists and galleries with royalties.
  • "Peggy creates a new economy for art, one where everyone can participate," said Craig Follett, Co-founder & CEO of Peggy.
  • To achieve this, Peggy has partnered with top contemporary galleries from around the world for the app’s launch.

Letterform Archive announces new exhibition celebrating design that empowers communities and fights oppression

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Online, Letterform Archive, Studio Museum in Harlem, Art Gallery of Ontario, Education, Book, Creativity, Publication, STRIKE, Exhibition, Orange County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Artifact, LOVE, New Museum, RESIST, Art Institute, City, Student, San Francisco Bay Area, Coles, Letter, Archive, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Phaidon Press, Social media, Black panther, Black, Awareness, Black Lives Matter, Collection, Social change, SAN, AIDS, Typesetting, Japaridze's polymodal logic, Art

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In collaboration with Polymode, Letterform Archive is excited to announce Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest, a new exhibition on view beginning July 23, 2022. This will be the second-ever exhibition presented by Letterform Archive in their new permanent space at 2325 Third Street, Floor 4R in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

Key Points: 
  • This will be the second-ever exhibition presented by Letterform Archive in their new permanent space at 2325 Third Street, Floor 4R in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.
  • Curated by Silas Munro of the design studio Polymode with Stephen Coles of Letterform Archive, the exhibition will feature more than 100 objects, including broadsheets, buttons, signs, t-shirts, posters, and ephemera spanning the 1800s to today.
  • "We're also very inspired by the collective and collaborative process that Letterform Archive welcomes and supports for typographers, designers, and expanded audiences."
  • The hardcover exhibition catalog, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest, is authored by Silas Munro, with an introduction by Colette Gaiter.

Canada Post celebrates centennial of Group of Seven's first exhibition

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Persons of National Historic Significance, Canadian art, Artists, Visual arts, Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, Tom Thomson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Canadian Group of Painters

Canada Post is celebrating this significant anniversary with a stamp issue featuring works by the Group's seven founding members.

Key Points: 
  • Canada Post is celebrating this significant anniversary with a stamp issue featuring works by the Group's seven founding members.
  • It was on May 7, 1920, that Canadian artists Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y.
  • Varley held their first exhibition as the Group of Seven at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario [AGO]).
  • Inspired by Tom Thomson who had drowned three years earlier and encouraged by theirshared creative vision, the Group changed the way Canada was viewed at home and abroad.

The National Gallery of Canada Names Kitty Scott as Deputy Director and Chief Curator

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Canadian culture, Department of Canadian Heritage, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, ONTARIO, Canada, Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards

OTTAWA, Oct. 30, 2019 /CNW/ -Dr. Sasha Suda, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, announced today the appointment of Kitty Scott as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator, effective January 6, 2020.

Key Points: 
  • OTTAWA, Oct. 30, 2019 /CNW/ -Dr. Sasha Suda, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, announced today the appointment of Kitty Scott as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator, effective January 6, 2020.
  • Most recently the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Kitty Scott will be returning to the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), where she was Curator of Contemporary Art from 2000 to 2006.
  • "It is exciting to have Kitty Scott return to the National Gallery of Canada at a moment when we are re-engaging with our mandate in new, bold ways," said Dr. Suda, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.
  • The National Gallery of Canada is home to the most important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian art.

A Season of Firsts at the National Gallery of Canada

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
ONTARIO, Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage, National Gallery of Canada, Scotiabank, Art Gallery of Ontario

"We wished to strike a good balance in the exhibitions that the National Gallery of Canada will present this fall.

Key Points: 
  • "We wished to strike a good balance in the exhibitions that the National Gallery of Canada will present this fall.
  • On view until February 24, 2019, Anthropocene is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada (CPI), in partnership with Fondazione MAST.
  • Created in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century.
  • Its collections build upon the National Gallery's Photographs Collection, with the unprecedented support of CPI's Founding Partner Scotiabank, the Archive of Modern Conflict and the National Gallery of Canada Foundation.