Books & Publications

Two wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion. A...

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...

A Star is Born traces how stars on both sides of the camera shape the image of musicians and rock bands. Glamour portraits, journalistic documents ...

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...

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. ...