How Tom Thomson’s Paintings Stop Time in Its Tracks The Tyee By: Dorothy Woodend July 19, 2024 Original URL: How Tom Thomson’s Paintings Stop Time in Its Tracks | The Tyee In this moment of seemingly endless political and cultural crises, it is useful to step [...]
McMichael Canadian Art Collection Announces Summer 2024 Exhibitions June 21, 2024, Kleinburg, ON—The McMichael Canadian Art Collection today announces its 2024 summer exhibition program celebrating the 150th anniversary of Impressionism. River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence presents a survey of more than 150 works by [...]
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection’s Signature Fundraiser, the Moonlight Gala, Returns June 1, 2024 May 22, 2024, KLEINBURG, ON - The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to announce the return of its signature annual fundraiser, the Moonlight Gala on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Canadian art’s biggest night under the stars will dazzle hundreds of [...]
People of the Watershed CBC Up North May 9, 2024
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie Opens May 11 at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection Exhibition of rarely seen photographs depicting Indigenous life in the 1950s and 60s curated by nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw (Willow Cree) author Paul Seesequasis Left: John Macfie, Henry Kechebra calling a moose, Mattigami Reserve, 1959, photograph, [...]
A Voyage to the North Maclean’s By: Danielle Paradis April 12, 2024 Original URL: A Voyage to the North - Macleans.ca A new exhibit chronicles daily Indigenous life in northern Ontario in the ’50s and ’60s John Macfie, Miss Gray, daughter of Duncan Gray, Fort Severn, c. 1955, photograph, John Macfie fonds, C330-14-0-0-75, [...]
36 Hours in Toronto The New York Times By: Ingrid K. Williams April 11, 2024 Original URL: 36 Hours in Toronto: Things to Do and See - The New York Times (nytimes.com)> Locals may insist (politely, of course) that Toronto doesn’t belong atop any traveler’s wish list, but don’t fall for that Canadian modesty. Proudly [...]
Bertram Brooker: When We Awake! Galleries West By: Paul Gessell April 5, 2024 Original URL: Bertram Brooker: When We Awake! - Galleries West Bertram Brooker (1888–1955), Shoes, c. 1936, oil on canvas marouflaged to paperboard, 27.4 x 35.2 cm, Gift of Phillip Gevik, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2020.2. Photo: Alexandra Cousins Bertram [...]
Marcel Dzama: Ghosts of Canoe Lake Galleries West By: Paul Gessell April 1, 2024 Original URL: Marcel Dzama: Ghosts of Canoe Lake - Galleries West Marcel Dzama (b. 1974), We can not abandon such beauty, 2023, pearlescent acrylic, ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 30.5 x 36.2 cm, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner [...]
In Marcel Dzama’s Work, the Climate Crisis Is Fuelling a Crisis of Imagination Frieze By: Brandon Kaufman March 1, 2024 Original URL: In Marcel Dzama’s Work, the Climate Crisis Is Fuelling a Crisis of Imagination | Frieze At McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the artist revisits landscape painter Tom Thomson’s Canoe Lake as it’s threatened by [...]
