Although the West provided photographers with new subject matter of sweeping landscapes, impressive wildlife, and adventuresome lifestyles, it also presented challenges to the photographers who were fighting the elements of gusty winds and cold temperatures.
Drawn to the North by tales of the gold rush and the untouched riches of Alaska, the Lomen family moved from Minnesota to Nome, Alaska, in 1903. In 1908, the brothers—Carl, Harry, Alfred and Ralph—purchased a photography studio, quickly learning how to keep cameras in working order at Arctic temperatures.
Jack Chambers: the light from the darkness, silver paintings and film work, offered a rare opportunity to study a selection of works from a specific period in the artist’s development.
1. The Tree: Form and Substance featured a wide selection of works by artists such as Kim Dorland, Viktor Tinkl, Edward Falkenberg, Will Gorlitz, Sorel Etrog, Alex McLeod, Natalka Husar, and others.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is lauded around the world as a poet, playwright, musician, and philosopher, yet few outside India know that he was also a highly regarded visual artist. The Last Harvest, produced to mark the 150th anniversary of the year of Tagore’s birth, comprised more than sixty works on paper created by this versatile and prolific visionary, drawn from three collections in India.
“Fashionality” is a newly coined term that refers to the visual culture and semiotics of dress and adornment. Combining the words “fashion,” “personality,” and “nationality,” it reflects the interplay between clothing, identity, and culture.
To mark the occasion of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, the Victoria and Albert Museum organized an exhibition of important portraits to tour internationally.
Double Take: Portraits of Intriguing Canadians presented the wonderful diversity of individuals who have left—and are leaving—their mark on our country and our culture.
Three exhibitions explored the diversity of style and content in artwork from Cape Dorset. Whales' Tails and Other Tales: Cape Dorset's Pudlat Family, Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and guest-curated by Inuit art scholar and former McMichael curator Susan Gustavison
This exhibition featured a collection of forty-seven works by Ansel Adams (1902 -1984), two-thirds of which Adams made late in his life to serve as a succinct representation of his life’s work.
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs present the “disrupted” landscapes; those created by the technology used in the extraction of minerals and energy from the planet, and those changed by the need for extensive delivery systems put in place to move materials for production of goods.
This exhibition was the third and final of a cycle of exhibitions organized over the past decade by the Museum of Arts and Design that presented a diverse panoply of new work by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from Canada, the continental United States, and the Pacific Rim.
