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Winnipeg’s New Showcase and Meeting Place for Inuit Art and Artists
A new museum for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leading collection of Inuit art opens on Saturday in a project shaped by Inuit. Share full article. By Ian Austen. March 26, 2021.
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery reopens with a Michael Maltzan Architecture-designed addition
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG), the oldest public art gallery in Western Canada, will reopen its doors to the public on March 27 with a new exhibition space containing the largest public ...
Grand Forks Herald13y
Winnipeg Art Gallery to celebrate 100 years - Grand Forks Herald
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada's oldest civic art gallery, will celebrate its 100th anniversary September through August 2013. Officially opened on Dec 16, 1912, the WAG has grown with the city.
CBC.ca6y
'This is a game-changing museum': Winnipeg Art Gallery expansion promises to vault Inuit art to new heights
When complete in 2020, the Winnipeg Art Gallery says the new $65-million Inuit Art Centre will be home to a collection of contemporary Inuit art unlike any other in the world — and will bring ...
The Globe and Mail10y
The Winnipeg Art Gallery designs a new showcase for Inuit art
A new 40,000-square-foot Inuit Art Centre will add on to the existing gallery, expanding the building and, as that drawing by Maltzan suggests, reaching deliberately beyond its walls.
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Winnipeg Art Gallery’s exhibition of Labrador Inuit art a righting of history
SakKijajuk is at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Oct. 14. From there, the exhibit will travel to the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina (Feb. 14-June 2, 2019) and the Art Gallery of Windsor (Oct. 19 ...
The Art Newspaper4y
World's biggest Inuit art collection revealed at Winnipeg's new museum within a museum - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The longtime Winnipeg Art Gallery director's Order of the Buffalo Hunt, one of Manitoba’s highest honours, has also been posthumously rescinded. Elena Goukassian. Native American art news.
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Canadian museum removing name of former director and Nazi supporter Ferdinand Eckhardt from its entrance hall - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Canada’s Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) announced last month that it is dropping the name of its former director Ferdinand Eckhardt from its physical and digital spaces due to recently surfaced ...
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Winnipeg Art Gallery sells Warhol prints to raise money for Indigenous art
The Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq plans to auction off highly coveted portraits of Queen Elizabeth made by artist Andy Warhol to raise funds for Indigenous art. The four screen-printed portraits ...
Winnipeg Free Press1y
Winnipeg Art Gallery in possession of a fake Norval Morrisseau
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is the latest institution to have a brush with the largest documented case of art fraud in Canadian history. | On Friday, after a lengthy investigation, the WAG was ...
Los Angeles Times8y
Winnipeg’s pop-up art — in the form of warming huts — helps you embrace your inner Abominable Snowman in style - Los Angeles Times
Winnipeg’s pop-up art — in the form of warming huts — helps you embrace your inner Abominable Snowman in style. By Margo Pfeiff . March 15, 2017 5 AM PT . ... Gallery. The stylish ...