Books & Publications

Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circu...

Official War artists, soldiers in the field, and civilian artists all left records that describe the battlefronts and the home front during the Fi...

Andrea Doucette lives in a fishing village in Nova Scotia. It's Christmas Eve and everyone in her house is feeling excited and happy-except for And...

Bears are a symbol of strength in many cultures. They also have a certain protectiveness and prowess about them – characteristics that are easily s...

The popularity of the sculptures of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is due in no small part to the evangelical efforts of the pre-eminent twentieth-centu...

The National Gallery of Canada has teamed up with one of the country’s largest financial institutions to present an exhibition of exceptional art f...

Since the mid-1980s, Susan McEachern has examined the ways in which photography is involved in the production of cultural meaning. Her inquiry is s...

Elizabeth Enders calls Nova Scotia home for a few fleeting months of the year. During those summer months she soaks in her surroundings on the sout...

New York: Ulysses Gallery, 1994 Paperback. Glossy color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. Color illustrations

Lasting Impressions presents one of Canada’s most extensive art collections, with works from William Blair Bruce's Phantom of the Snow (1888) to Al...

Hundreds of rats created from recycled vintage fur coats are taking over the Gallery’s fourth floor – and we are equally thrilled and unsettled. Fr...

The exhibition between, and in tears was produced by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax and presented there from June 28 to August 12, 2007. ...

Ned Bear is renowned for his hand-carved masks that have an energy and aesthetic that both embrace the traditional, but also the modern without ove...

Cities, the driving forces behind the economic and cultural engines of a country, are very much on the minds of Canadians in the first decade of th...

For twenty years Halifax conceptualist Garry Neill Kennedy painted floor to ceiling wall works using the font "superstar shadow" to spell out text....

The exhibition Two Artists Time Forgot offers a rare opportunity to experience the work of two female artists whose painting careers were lost to ...

How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education—and to a large extent of the postminimalism and conceptual a...

Woodrow was a captivating multimedia installation by artist Graeme Patterson that was exhibited by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2007. Discover...

Hockey and art may not seem like they have much in common; however, if you look closer, there are certain similarities they both share. From creati...