While waiting for the colours to appear, and taking advantage of a “rare” downpour, relaxing from the hustle and bustle of the new academic year or assuming its resolutions, all the reasons are good to push the door of museums and/or galleries in September.
Standing Figure Container (detail), Colombia, Calima Region, 1500 BCE – 100 CE (Ilama Tradition), slip-painted ceramic, 27.5 x 16.2 x 16.5 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
You still have a few days left to enjoy the following exhibitions, which offer a diversity of sensations:
- until September 10:
- Wolves. The art of Dempsey Bob at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
- Hochelaga – Evolving Montreal at the McCord-Stewart Museum (Montreal),
- Movement: Expressive Bodies in Art at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa),
- Alexander McQueen. Art meets Fashion at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Quebec);
- until September 17:
- On the horizon: Studio Muoto offers a reading of Amancio Williams archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal),
- Lyse Charland Favretti: Dance of Lights at the Musée des métiers d’art du Québec (Montreal);
- until September 24:
- TUSARNITUT! Music Born of the Cold at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto);
- until October 1:
- Thought and Splendour of Indigenous Colombia at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
During your visit to Quebec, why not make a detour to the Pôle culturel du monastère des Ursulines to see the new exhibition Embroider Like an Ursuline https://www.polecultureldesursulines.ca/en/exhibition-embroider-like-ursuline/
Appreciate aesthetic September!
Note :
This section is aimed particularly at collectors and lovers of ancient art (before the 20th century). Thus, it concentrates on a proposal of exhibitions likely to interest them or focusing more specifically on history of art. It does not denigrate the abundant and attractive offer of exhibitions highlighting current and contemporary arts, but reserves to specialists of these periods their suggestions.