The National Gallery of Canada is once again delaying by one year its high-profile biennial showcasing recent contemporary art acquisitions, says gallery director Marc Mayer. Biennials are supposed to, by definition, be held every two years. A triennial is an art exhibition held every three years.
By Karen-Luz Sison Ottawa science enthusiasts plan to gather at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum this week for the city’s second “science slam” and to celebrate the day in 1961 when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. The worldwide event is called
Works by three young female photographers, including two from Ottawa, are now on view in the National Gallery. Ottawa residents Meryl McMaster and Deanna Pizzitelli along with Elisa Julia Gilmour from Toronto are the winners of the first ever PhotoLab 4: New Generation Photography Award. The work that helped obtain
With a unanimous vote at city council, the hard work can begin in earnest to build a bigger and better music industry in Ottawa. The full city council, as expected, adopted the community's first ever music strategy Wednesday morning giving momentum to an idea that was
In Mandarin it is called Jingju. In English it is Peking Opera, or if you prefer, Beijing Opera. But whatever you call it, for William Lau, it is the passion of a lifetime. "Jingju is the opera of the capital," Lau, who is a program officer. He
The head of the National Gallery will leave his post when his term expires. Marc Mayer will have served 10 years in the prestigious job. A final date has not been announced but it is expected to happen early in the new year, a gallery official
Mark Godden fell in love with Canada when he first came to take ballet training with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He had moved from Dallas, Texas, in the 1980s and really never left the country. "I have spent more of my life in Canada than I ever
For Christian Tetzlaff, it really is all about the music. "I am not the composer. I give it all that I have, but it is impossible to think you are as important as the composer. With some interpreters, you get the feeling it is about them
Hip-hop is just another subset of popular music, right? Wrong. It’s inevitably puffed up, facile and obnoxious, right? Wrong again. In any case, you know you want nothing to do with the stuff, right? You could be proven wrong on that score as well according to a couple of the
Last summer the novelist, playwright, essayist and poet David Adams Richards did something he had never done before. He swore an oath to Queen and country and entered the Senate of Canada as an independent representative of the people of New Brunswick. It was, he said
