Ottawa photo-artist Christine Fitzgerald is heading to the Canadian embassy in Washington. You might say her posting will be long. Fitzgerald has not become a diplomat. Instead, two of her painterly photographs created by the 19th century wet collodion process are headed to the embassy for
It’s unlikely Stan Rogers’ long-loved 1981 song Northwest Passage will ever again be played in my home. The a cappella tune, belted out by the late Canadian folksinger with his male band mates singing lusty harmony, traces a trip by Rogers in which his thoughts
While the public was beating up OC Transpo at City Hall on Thursday, over at the glittering Ottawa Art Gallery in a crowded Alma Duncan Room the design for the new central public library was being unveiled. Safe to say the reception for this new landmark
Sometimes, the precise moment when a work of art began can be known, even if the full concept takes years to coalesce. Andrew Wright, this year’s winner of the Karsh Award for Photography in Ottawa, was strolling about the annual Glebe garage sale in 2009
When Nadia Myre was putting the title on the exhibition of tondos called Meditations on Black Lake, she says she was thinking about looking at a body of water from above. "I was thinking about what would it look like if you were a spirit looking down
Adrean Farrugia is a talented — and funny — pianist who has paired up with the saxophonist Joel Frahm for a recording called Blued Dharma. The duo will be at the Ottawa Winter Jazz festival weekend. Before the show Farrugia answered some questions from ARTSFILE. Q.
When I was a piano student, my teacher gave me some wise advice about playing Schubert. “Pare everything down,” she would say. Simplicity is the key to intimacy, and intimacy is the heart of Schubert’s music. So I worked at stripping away anything theatrical or
The world is in a disordered state with even the United States going its own way without much regard to the interests of allies. In such a world, diplomacy becomes even more important. But diplomacy needs more that just government to government dialogue. It needs art
When Sasha Suda started her work as the 11th executive director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, she entered the building by the front door. Right away she had a question. Where was the art? There was none in the area round the entrance, none
Not since the battle over Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire has a controversy hit the National Gallery as hard as the Chagall affair. The uproar followed the revelation that the gallery was putting up the painting The Eiffel Tower by Marc Chagall up for auction in
