Today, at 4:18pm on the Friday before a long weekend, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia released a statement that it is looking for a new CEO. The position was held by Nancy Noble, who previously served as the CEO of the Museum of Vancouver for over a decade before taking the AGNS job in […]
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Council rejects staff advice in vote to give the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia $7 million
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated construction on the Waterfront Arts Centre would begin in 2024, when it is actually slated to break ground this spring. The Coast regrets the error. Here’s the thing about dreams: They can be expensive. If you’re the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, your new dream home—the Waterfront […]
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Will Halifax give the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia $3 million?
It’s been two years since the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia first announced its itchy feet, a plan to move to an old parking lot on Salter Street and create what it calls the Halifax Waterfront Arts District. The vision is part art gallery, part community hub, and even though NSCAD announced it won’t be […]
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia chooses its winning design
When Joni Mitchell sang that “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone/Paved paradise, put up a parking lot,” she forgot one thing: Paradise could be rebuilt over that dead field of asphalt. Today, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia announced it’ll do just that as it unveiled its plans for the new Waterfront […]
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia unveils three potential designs for its new location
Right now, at 1723 Hollis Street, over 10,000 paintings, sculptures and works of art have their bags packed, ready to go. They’re waiting, fingers drumming, until it’s time to get moving. They’re ready for their new home, on what is currently a parking lot on Lower Water Street. Yes, the art is ready to move […]
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Stay cool with these 13 summer art exhibits
To July 14 Nature as Communities For her masters in environmental studies, Dal student Jennifer Yakamovich has been researching the role art can play in helping a cultural shift towards sustainability. Here, she plays curator as she shares a slew of results by artists from across the country, with pieces in various mediums meditating on […]
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Here We Are Here and the complicated presence of Blackness in Canada
The history of Black lives in Nova Scotia is oft little recorded and little taught in the traditional channels of textbooks and classrooms, but a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is looking to give space to this illustrious history with Black voices front and centre. Here We Are Here: Black Canadian […]
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Visual arts review: A Sense of Site at the AGNS
To May 12 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street In 2017, a series of projects were commissioned and performed by contemporary artists in and around National Parks and Historic Sites. In contrast to the Canada 150 celebrations that took place that summer, the artworks that were a part of Landmarks 2017 / Repères […]
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Jordan Bennett goes outside the boxes
Jordan Bennett, Ketu’ elmita’jik To March 31 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 1923 Hollis Street The use of colour in Jordan Bennett’s Ketu’ elmita’jik is almost dizzying. Standing in front of a patch of gallery wall painted an impressive neon red, you can imagine how Bennett and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s prep team […]
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Miss Chief and the Resilience
Kent Monkman is known for working on a monumental scale, and his recent work is as ambitious as ever. With the help of his Toronto studio, the Cree artist and his team of assistants (like a renaissance master and workshop) create stunning, giant canvases that reimagine the genre of history painting. History painting has less […]
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Gold Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner The Dart Gallery After a banner visitor year following the release of the Maud Lewis biopic Maudie, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has not rested on its movie-fuelled laurels. The usual interesting and innovative array of exhibitions has abounded since […]
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Prismatic preview: SuperNova and Rah-Eleh’s identity issues
SuperNova To September 17 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street Iranian-Canadian artist Rah-Eleh is bringing her talents to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia to debut her video installation SuperNova. As one of many artists visiting Halifax for the Prismatic Arts Festival, her work offers a look at diverse and marginalized identities, with […]