Books & Publications

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...

Writing early in 1962, Lucy Jarvis said she felt “just at the threshold of beginning.” Jarvis had studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts ...

In 1898, Henry Mortikar Rosenberg became Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design, now known as NSCAD University. He remained principal f...

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...

In her most recent body of work titled Traps (2008-2010), Cecil Day revisits the familiar subject of hunting in developing a suite of prints. The 1...

RetroActive offers a comprehensive view of artist John Greer’s work, and his commitment to the discourse of sculpture. Stunningly designed by Susan...

Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg’s art is featured in this publication from the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The book was released in conjunctio...