I confess to an abiding love for “scientific” drawings of nature. If I’m in your cottage I’ll soon retreat to a corner to savour the drawings of birds in those Peterson field guides that every cottage has. Before one recent Christmas, I pecked and flapped
After several weeks of thick, T-bone steak and potatoes repertoire, Thursday’s NACO program served up a sleek, trim menu of Mozart and Haydn. But if the program’s length and girth were slimmer, the music-making was anything but lightweight. The evening opened with Alfred Schnittke’s marvellous 1977
The National Gallery of Canada has dodged a potential seven-figure penalty for cancelling a planned sale of the Marc Chagall painting, The Eiffel Tower, at a May 15 auction by Christie’s in New York. Although Christie’s levied a penalty for cancelling the sale, an anonymous donor
Marc Chagall's La Tour Eiffel is coming home to the National Gallery of Canada at last. The gallery said in another rather cryptic media release Thursday morning that "after revisiting the terms of our contract, the National Gallery of Canada and Christie’s confirm that La tour
For those of a certain vintage, the regular appearances of the anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor Alberto Manguel on CBC Radio's Morningside, were oases of intelligence. Itis comforting to know he is still at the same game, these days as the head of the National
The Ottawa New Music Creators are dedicated to the performance of new and existing Canadian compositions. The organization was formed in 2008 by Evan Ware, James Wright, Colin Mack, Gary Hayes, and Joanna Estelle. For Christopher Goddard, the current artistic director of the ONMC, the
Who knew that silver could inspire such passion, that it could raise such curatorial sensuality? Gérard Morisset, an art historian, long ago wrote of a tureen made by the Canadian silversmith Laurent Amiot, “It is majestic but not stiff, simple but not austere, ornate but not
The Ottawa New Music Creators are dedicated to the performance of new and existing Canadian compositions for flute, harp and piano. The organization was formed in 2008 by Evan Ware, James Wright, Colin Mack, Gary Hayes, and Joanna Estelle. For Christopher Goddard, the current artistic
Yosuke Kawasaki is the strong, silent type most of the time. But every now and then the National Arts Centre Orchestra's concertmaster steps forward into the spotlight. He's doing that this week when he will be featured, along with NACO's principal guest conductor John Storgårds in
Being a citizen has many constituent parts. But one that is not often at the centre of the political discussion of nations is the idea of cultural citizenship. That gap will be addressed in Ottawa this week at a unique cultural summit of the Americas being
