Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Mark Newport, Fantastic Four, 2003
Exhibition

Close to You: contemporary textiles, intimacy and popular culture

19 October – 25 November, 2007

Guest curated by Sarah Quinton (Senior Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada), this exhibition examines the use of idioms and images from popular culture in the work of contemporary textile artists from Canada and the US. Participating artists Ai Kijima, Scott Kildall, Allyson Mitchell, Mark Newport and Michèle Provost explore popular myth, comic book heroics and contemporary social and sexual mores through their material practices of knitting, appliqué, embroidery and crochet.

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Film

The Shock of the New

27 September – 12 December, 2007

Art Critic and author Robert Hughes’s brillliant series The Shock Of The New is often considered the official sequel to the landmark BBC art history series Civilization, starting where Civilization left off, with the rise of Modernism in art.

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Film

Jim Jarmusch Survey

26 September – 12 December, 2007

One of the most original and consistent of American Independent filmmakers, Jim Jarmusch’s body of work has advanced from the cinematic territory first cleared by Robert Frank and John Cassevetes.

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Film

Feasts at Five

14 – 21 September, 2007

Our annual collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival this year is a mouth-watering mini-retrospective of films about food. These acclaimed and popular classics will whet your appetite for some of the Atlantic Film Festival’s other offerings, whether they by big screen adventures or more intimate receptions. Each film is screened at five o’clock at Dalhousie Art Gallery during the Festival. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. Seating is limited — and dinner arrangements must be made independently!

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Jeanne Ju, Me and Cindy Sherman, from Art Star, 2004-ongoing
Exhibition

Actual

17 August – 7 October, 2007

Opening Reception | Thursday 16 August at 8 pm



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Gerald Ferguson, Four Ash Cans 2006 48" x 48"
Exhibition

Gerald Ferguson: Frottage Work 1994 - 2006, Ash Can paintings 2006

11 May – 30 June, 2007

Opening Reception Thursday 10 May at 8 pm

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Exhibition

A Walk in the Park: Contemporary Work from the Permanent Collection

11 May – 30 June, 2007

This exhibition includes mainly three-dimensional works by contemporary Canadian artists Marlene Creates, Nancy Edell, Michael Fernandes, John Greer and Terence Johnson, selected from the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s permanent collection by Susan Gibson Garvey around the theme of “groomed nature.”

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Event

Art at Home and All That Jazz

25 March, 2007

Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 25 March, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!

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Film

Mediaeval to Renaissance: The Mid-Millenial Avant Garde

14 March – 18 April, 2007

This mini-series looks at the crucial cultural transformation in Europe that lead to the Renaissance and beyond. Beginning with a Medieval whodunnit, the series then works through some of Chaucer’s choicest Canterbury Tales and Rosselini’s magnificent three-part examination of the Medici family in Florence, to arrive at the High Renaissance with the sumptuous costume drama of Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, all cinematically exploring the rebirth of classical values and the emergence of European Humanism.

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Laurie Ljubojevic, News ( a conversation with Morita and Satake) 2006
Exhibition

Material Transfer

9 March – 22 April, 2007

Opening reception Thursday 8 March at 8 pm



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