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Ottawa Orientation
Every two years the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa hosts an Orientation Program for museum/gallery professionals and, in late 2009, I was lucky enough to attend! The program was a week filled...
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Drawings? What are drawings?
In the past, when I thought of art that could be hung on a wall, I’d generally think of a painting or a print, you know, maybe something that I’ve seen before and something that I can sort of make out...
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R for Christmas 2010
Just in time for the holidays: Natalka Husar’s new R for Christmas painted book cover! Last year at this time, the McMaster Museum of Art presented Natalka Husar’s exhibition Burden of Innocence. That...
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Looking Ahead (and Enjoying the Now)
In preparation for our 18th Century exhibitions and the 2011 John Douglas Taylor Conference: The Immaterial 18th Century, I’ve immersed myself in all things 18th Century—from the Enlightenment to the...
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Get in the Scene at the McMaster Museum of Art!
Check out these great green screen photos! In honour of Welcome Week on campus, the Museum hosted (from 10-3, so it’s still going as I write this) a special Green Screen Photo Booth event today....
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What Kind of Museum Visitor Are You?
In the past, museums and art galleries have tried to appeal to their visitors based on age demographics – you know, older people like landscapes and younger people like abstracts – but imagine, age...
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On the Museum’s Front Doorstep…
McMaster is the first university in Canada to have its campus walkways mapped by Google’s Street View project, Now, virtual tourists can navigate their way around campus roads, bike paths and trails,...
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Art and Science Panel, Pics and Poetry
Last week’s Panel Discussion on Stem Cell Culture: Biomedical Research, Popular Culture and Art was a great success with more than 250 guests in attendance. For those who missed it, please have a look...
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Who’s on YOUR T-shirt?
And why? Something to ponder in the context of Barbara Astman’s exhibition, Dancing with Che: Enter through the Gift Shop, which looks at the commodification of images of notorious South American...
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Speaking of Writing Inspired by Art…
…here are just a few examples. Students who are considering entering the Museum’s writing contest, Inspired by Art, don’t forget the deadline is this week – February 29! THE ART THE WRITING IT INSPIRED...
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Reflections on Platon’s Mirror
Visitors in Mischa Kuball’s installation, Platon’s Mirror presented at McMaster Museum of Art courtesy of Goethe-Institut Toronto Watching visitors discover Mischa Kuball’s Platon’s Mirror is amazing....
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Art on the flipside: What the visitor never sees
One of the many perks of working at a Museum is the opportunity to view works of art from vantage points that the public very rarely get to see – canvases without frames, on tabletops, drawings without...
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Museum Education Programs: On Learning Styles and Apple Pigs
Courtesy OMA’s Twitter! @museumsontario I just returned from an intensive, 3-day course in Sarnia with the Ontario Museum Association. It was their Education Programs course, part of their Certificate...
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Geocaching on Campus
A couple of years ago, the McMaster Museum of Art began to look into the (not so) secret world of geocaching. To date more than fifty of our Art Adventure geocoins have travelled the world, through...
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Emotionally Provocative: “This is your life…”
Viewing one of K. Nicol’s art works in the exhibition Predisposed. Viewing art is very much about who you are. During every exhibition, my discussions with visitors brings this to light....
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Mira’s pick: Vincent Van Gogh’s Still Life
Guest blog from our summer work/study Mira Qamar, a McMaster University Art History and Philosophy student. Mira has selected her favourites from McMaster Museum of Art’s collection, works she...
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The best buys in the Baroque
Consumption as Redemption The temporal distance of centuries can sometimes fool us into thinking we are different from those who have come before; we’ve changed since then, we think and act...
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Bridging the transformation between past and present – Kameido Tenjin Shrine
Katsushika Houkusai (Japanese, 1760 – 1849), Kameido Tenjin taiko-bashi, 1827-1830, Woodblock, Gift of Mr. Robert McNairn, Collection of McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University The elegant drum...
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Art on glass, under glass
Detail from John W. Ford’s House Not a Home installation John W. Ford sees the artistic and storytelling potential in objects that the rest of might overlook – or, in this case, look through. His glass...
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Short Videos from François Dallegret’s Talk
Artist François Dallegret presented a talk at the launch of his exhibition God & Co at McMaster. Here are a few short clips from that talk. The exhibition continues at McMaster until March 29....
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