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Was the Group of Seven really that great?

Episode 9

Award-winning NPR producer Scott Gurian takes us on an Ontario road trip to uncover the artists’ lesser-known story

36 minutes

People & Culture

Love affair with Lake O’Hara: On the trail of the Group of Seven’s J.E.H. MacDonald

A sweeping new exhibit at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies celebrates MacDonald’s “O’Hara Era” through paintings, diaries, letters and artifacts

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People & Culture

New museum exhibition celebrates women war artists

As high-profile wars rage in Europe and the Middle East, the Canadian War Museum tackles how women perceive war. Outside the Lines: Women Artists at War opens May 24.

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Travel

The statues that move us

From New York’s iconic Statue of Liberty to the famous Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, these are some of the world’s most captivating statues

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People & Culture

Une exposition sur l’art du Nunavik au Musée canadien de la nature

Notre territoire, notre art explore le riche patrimoine du Nunavik à travers la photographie, la vidéo, la musique et plus encore

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People & Culture

5 Canadian artists addressing Canada’s increasingly threatened landscapes

A century after the Group of Seven became famous for an idealized vision of Canadian nature, contemporary artists are incorporating environmental activism into work that highlights Canada’s disappearing landscapes

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People & Culture

Edward Burtynsky discusses new installation: In the Wake of Progress

Featured in the heart of downtown Toronto, this larger-than-life art installation tells the story of humanity’s impact on the planet

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People & Culture

Into the Arctic: The paintings of Cory Trépanier

Canadian painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier explores the sublime and rapidly changing Canadian Arctic

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a beadwork of portrait of Louis Riel in the July/August 2019 issue

People & Culture

Le perlage d’une icône métisse

L’artiste Krista Leddy nous offre un aperçu de son atelier alors qu’elle crée un portrait de Louis Riel à partir de milliers de perles de verre

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Harland Smalleyes, a dancer representing the Stoney Nakoda and Blackfoot First Nations, performs during the 2017 Stampede

People & Culture

Photos: A celebration of First Nations at the Calgary Stampede

Beyond the rodeo and the chuckwagon races, the Calgary Stampede is one of the country’s longest-running public celebrations of Indigenous cultures

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Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson Haida Nation Naw Jaada | Octopus Woman, 2017

People & Culture

National billboard exhibition celebrates Indigenous resilience through art

For the next two months, works by 50 Indigenous female artists will be displayed on 174 billboards across Canada

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Alex Janvier photographed by Amber Bracken

People & Culture

L’histoire de Thirteen Moons (Treize lunes), une nouvelle œuvre d’Alex Janvier

La nouvelle œuvre du célèbre artiste autochtone Alex Janvier est une peinture murale circulaire inspirée par le calendrier lunaire traditionnel. En voici l’histoire.

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People & Culture

The story behind “Thirteen Moons,” a new work by Alex Janvier

Celebrated Indigenous artist Alex Janvier’s new work is a circular mural inspired by the traditional lunar calendar. Here’s how it came to be.

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People & Culture

The true story of Pauline Johnson: poet, provocateur and champion of Indigenous rights

The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes

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Canadian food designer Amanda Huynh shows off a piece of her exhibit, Diasporic Dumplings.

People & Culture

Touring exhibit offers a creative take on the future of food

People & Culture

Photos: Flying high with Montreal’s Cirque Éloize

Steamer at the Old Wharf, Nanaimo. 1958 by E.J. Hughes

People & Culture

Painting the Island

Travel

Five essential things to do in San Francisco

Wildlife

The strange, compelling artistry of “beaver sculptures”

1916 letter from George Cantlie to daughter Celia Cantlie with pressed flowers

People & Culture

A Canadian soldier’s “war flowers” and the resilience of the human spirit

Articles

Artist Chris Cran’s Explore exhibition highlights Canadian explorers

Célébrant les 100 ans du Groupe des Sept

Celebrating 100 years of the Group of Seven

Beading a Métis icon

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Denise Clarke of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre

People & Culture

Featured Fellow: Denise Clarke

Mark Jeffery holds one of his goodwoodglobes prototypes at his home in Rossland, B.C.

Mapping

Meet the B.C. software developer who wants to bring back the globe

Douglas Coupland vortex Vancouver Aquarium ocean plastic Haida Gwaii

People & Culture

Douglas Coupland on the dark side of plastic

Guests at a launch event for the RCGS summer exhibit series

Places

RCGS launches 2018 Summer Exhibits series at 50 Sussex

Lady Slipper Orchids by Ann Love, one of 48 works of botanical art on display now at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Lady slipper orchids are a native perennial wildflower found across Canada.

Environment

Exhibition celebrates the beauty and intricacy of botanical art

Environment

How I wrote a symphony about the changing Canadian Arctic

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High-tech art to bring B.C.’s annual salmon run to downtown Vancouver

Uninterrupted, a digital art installation planned for Vancouver's Cambie Street Bridge, hopes to inspire conservation efforts

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Still from the Kenojuak Ashevak Heritage Minute by Historica Canada

People & Culture

Watch the first-ever Inuktitut Heritage Minute

The latest Heritage Minute from Historica Canada profiles Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak and is the first to be produced in three different languages

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People & Culture

L’histoire derrière « Thirteen Moons », une nouvelle œuvre d’Alex Janvier

La nouvelle œuvre de l’artiste autochtone de renom Alex Janvier est une fresque circulaire inspirée du calendrier lunaire traditionnel. Voici comment elle a été créée.