Books & Publications

Curators: David Diviney, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bruce Johnson, Independent Curator, and Sarah Fillmore...

Halifax-based artist and editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon presents his recent suite of caricature-portraits of Canada’s prime ministers past an...

Canadian Pioneers features over 80 works of Canada’s greatest artists and explore the creative spirit of these passionate painters. They include: E...

Glow, Not Gold, inspired by the expression "All that glitters is not gold" is an artist book produced by the Centre for Art Tapes and Conundrum Pre...

This book presents Detroit-born, Toronto-based artist Suzy Lake’s (born 1947) bold explorations of gender and identity. Along with her expansive us...

Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky (born 1962) used Polaroid Type 55 film as part of her working process until the film was discontinued in ...

COLLECTED WRITINGS AND STATEMENTS “I felt I was doing something to change the face and understanding of painting by the marks I was making on canva...

Transatlantique considers the development of the Art Deco aesthetic in Paris and Halifax evidenced in prints and drawings of fashion and costume de...

arry Silver began photographing the streets and subways of New York City in 1949 at the age of 15. Silver studied photography at the High School of...

The photos displayed in this collection demonstrate the varied career of one of Canada's greatest living photographers, Thaddeus Holownia.  A 40-y...

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

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...

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....

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...