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Melting glaciers main muse for McIntosh installation by Paul Walde

Melting glaciers main muse for McIntosh installation by Paul Walde

In 2013, Paul Walde led a group of 100 people, including a 55-piece choir and orchestra to the foot of the Farnham Glacier, in the Qat’muk area of the Purcell Mountains, in southeastern British Columbia. There, with the glacier as its sole audience, t …

Discover the nature of entertainment

Discover the nature of entertainment

Love and love and love these selections over and over again until you completely ruin them for yourself when McIntosh Gallery Curator Helen Gregory takes her turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Earlier this summer, Visual Arts graduate student Jessica Cappuccitti curated an exhibition, Welcome to Detroit: Suzy Lake and Orlando Ford, at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition offered viewers an opportunity to understand how these images – some of Detroit’s decay and others that capture people with smiling faces and open arms – shape ideas about the city.

Read. Watch. Listen. with James Patten

Read. Watch. Listen. with James Patten

Understanding that art does more than hang on walls, James Patten explains why he is the guy you want to invite over to the house on a free evening with a stack of LPs under his arm.

New book takes Canadians ‘Behind the Lines’

New book takes Canadians ‘Behind the Lines’

While stories ripped from the battlefield dominate most histories, the contributions of Canadians who remained on home front during the World Wars takes centre stage in McIntosh Gallery’s latest creation. Released this week, Behind the Lines: Canada’s Home Front...

Human figures begging you to take a ‘Stand’

Human figures begging you to take a ‘Stand’

Take a stroll by the McIntosh Gallery one of these days. Perhaps you’ve already walked by and wondered about the six sculptures standing – quite literally, akimbo – to its side. The six figures are part of an interactive outdoor sculpture installation, Last Stand. The...

Making plans to mark the occasion

Making plans to mark the occasion

You’re going to see a lot of red and white mixed in with purple next year as the university prepares to help Canada celebrate its sesquicentennial.

Evolution of self reflected in ‘Portraits’

Evolution of self reflected in ‘Portraits’

That cropped, off-centre, filtered selfie you posted on Instagram yesterday is just one symptom of a resurrected, contemporary interest in portraiture. It’s also one of the inspirations for Portraits, Self and Others (It’s Complicated) – an exhibition currently on...

New book celebrates artist, former McIntosh curator

New book celebrates artist, former McIntosh curator

Alumnus Tom Smart, BA’83, left, and artist Maurice Stubbs sign copies of the new book, Maurice Stubbs, Intuitive Painter, at the book launch today, at the McIntosh Gallery. Smart is a co-author of the book along with McIntosh curator Catherine Elliot Shaw and Phillip...

Discover the nature of entertainment

Discover the nature of entertainment

Love and love and love these selections over and over again until you completely ruin them for yourself when McIntosh Gallery Curator Helen Gregory takes her turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Earlier this summer, Visual Arts graduate student Jessica Cappuccitti curated an exhibition, Welcome to Detroit: Suzy Lake and Orlando Ford, at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition offered viewers an opportunity to understand how these images – some of Detroit’s decay and others that capture people with smiling faces and open arms – shape ideas about the city.

Read. Watch. Listen. with James Patten

Read. Watch. Listen. with James Patten

Understanding that art does more than hang on walls, James Patten explains why he is the guy you want to invite over to the house on a free evening with a stack of LPs under his arm.

New book takes Canadians ‘Behind the Lines’

New book takes Canadians ‘Behind the Lines’

While stories ripped from the battlefield dominate most histories, the contributions of Canadians who remained on home front during the World Wars takes centre stage in McIntosh Gallery’s latest creation. Released this week, Behind the Lines: Canada’s Home Front...

Human figures begging you to take a ‘Stand’

Human figures begging you to take a ‘Stand’

Take a stroll by the McIntosh Gallery one of these days. Perhaps you’ve already walked by and wondered about the six sculptures standing – quite literally, akimbo – to its side. The six figures are part of an interactive outdoor sculpture installation, Last Stand. The...

Making plans to mark the occasion

Making plans to mark the occasion

You’re going to see a lot of red and white mixed in with purple next year as the university prepares to help Canada celebrate its sesquicentennial.

Evolution of self reflected in ‘Portraits’

Evolution of self reflected in ‘Portraits’

That cropped, off-centre, filtered selfie you posted on Instagram yesterday is just one symptom of a resurrected, contemporary interest in portraiture. It’s also one of the inspirations for Portraits, Self and Others (It’s Complicated) – an exhibition currently on...

New book celebrates artist, former McIntosh curator

New book celebrates artist, former McIntosh curator

Alumnus Tom Smart, BA’83, left, and artist Maurice Stubbs sign copies of the new book, Maurice Stubbs, Intuitive Painter, at the book launch today, at the McIntosh Gallery. Smart is a co-author of the book along with McIntosh curator Catherine Elliot Shaw and Phillip...