The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

CHINA

Fri,11 Feb 2011 16:15:25 EDT

A unique selection of some 300 artefacts, including the famouslife-size terracotta soldiers of the first Chin Emperor's army, willtake visitors back through 1,000 years of Chinese art and history.

OTTO DIX

Fri,24 Sep 2010 16:15:25 EDT

Otto Dix (1891-1969), a German artist deeply affected by both World Wars, in which he fought, was at the forefront of the Berlin movement Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity], which espoused a realist, often critical, view of society during the interwar years and portrayed their profound sense of unease and pessimism.

�WE WANT MILES�

Fri,30 Apr 2010 16:15:25 EDT

With this exhibition, the Museum pays tribute to Miles Davis (1926-1991), one of the twentieth century’s greatest musicians. The multimedia retrospective (musical excerpts, film and documentary clips, drawings by Miles Davis; paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Mati Klarwein; photographs by Annie Leibovitz and Irving Penn; costumes, musical instruments and scores lent by the Davis family, etc.) recalls the highlights of his life and career, including his memorable concerts in Montreal.

INSPIRIA

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:15:25 EDT

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting, in a premiere, a spectacular private collection of twenty exceptional pieces of jewellery, the fruit of a collaboration between the Cirque du Soleil and one of the most distinguished firms in the Place Vendôme, Paris.

Pierre Dorion

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:15:25 EDT

From March 4 to May 30, 2010, The Museum will present, in the new galleries of contemporary art, Pierre Dorion, Painting and Photography. For his very first exhibition in a Montreal museum, the Montreal painter has opted to present 15 canvases (2009-2010) alongside with some 40 archival photographs on which they are based. Visitors will discover that photograpy, although a little-known aspect of Dorion's oeuvre, actually plays a crucial role in the devlopement of his work.

TIFFANY GLASS

Fri,12 Feb 2010 16:15:25 EDT

Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) is famous for the original and spectacular effectsof colour and light that he achieved in his blown vases, stained glass windows and lamps. A Canadian first, this exhibition focusses on Tiffany's outstanding contribution to design and the technology of glass.

Exodus

Thu,28 Jan 2010 16:15:25 EDT

Moses, a central figure in the Jewish religion who is also seen as a heroic and revered Old Testament leader and prefiguration of Jesus by Christians and as a great prophet by Muslims, is the focus of this exhibition, featuring graphic works created by two Jewish artists, Marc Chagall and Pnina Cohen Gagnon. Exodus is presented from January 28, to June 27, 2010. Admission to this exhibition is free.

J. W. Waterhouse

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:15:25 EDT

From October 2, 2009, to February 7, 2010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will host the largest-ever retrospective of works by the celebrated British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). J. W. Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment is the first large-scale monographic exhibition on Waterhouse’s work since 1978 and the first to feature his entire artistic career. This retrospective features some eighty paintings that are among the finest and most spectacular of the artist’s production, on loan from public and private collections in Australia, England, Ireland, Taiwan, the United States and Canada. It will also present many of the artist’s attractive studies in oil, chalk and pencil.

Global Warning: Scenes from a Planet under Pressure

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:15:25 EDT

On November 10, 2009, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts unveiled new galleries of contemporary art. By transforming and reallocating the galleries that run under Sherbrooke Street between the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion and the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, it has doubled the previous gallery space, to display its extensive and diversified permanent collection. From now on, the collection will be presented thematically, with a new installation each year. Global Warning: Scenes from a Planet under Pressure is the inaugural exhibition for these galleries and this new approach.

The Fantastical World of �rik Desmazi�res

Thu,10 Sep 2009 16:15:25 EDT

Presented from September 10, 2009, to January 3, 2010, the inaugural exhibition at the Museum’s new Graphic Arts Centre, The Fantastical World of Érik Desmazières, is Canada’s first retrospective of the prints of one of the most fascinating and distinguished contemporary printmakers, the French artist Érik Desmazières. Approximately fifty prints are exhibited in the galleries covering the breadth of his achievements, from his earliest prints, such as The Astronomers of 1972, to his most recent work, Rembrandt’s Kunstkammer of 2007.

The Painter as Printmaker: Impressionist Prints from the National Gallery of Canada

Thu,10 Sep 2009 16:15:25 EDT

This compelling show of seventy superb works on paper explores the range of printmaking techniques employed by the most celebrated French artists in the period spanning Realism and Post-Impressionism, from the mid-1850s through the 1890s. Among the artists included are Bracquemond, Cassatt, C�zanne, Corot, Daubigny, Degas, Forain, Luce, Manet, Millet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Signac and Van Gogh.

Expanding Horizons

Thu,18 Jun 2009 16:15:25 EDT

Expanding Horizons is the first exploration and analysis of this visually splendid subject. It will employ a revolutionary approach to landscape painting and photography in the period stretching from the outset of the American Civil War to the close of World War I, an era of artistic and historical transformation coinciding with the westward expansion of the two countries. Close to 200 works by American and Canadian artists will shed light on the national and regional identities of these two great countries, in which nature is ever-present. Organized around six themes, the exhibition draws upon stylistic similarities and differences, while revealing key cultural contrasts. Moreover, this exhibition’s innovative and “environmentally friendly” design and catalogue will provide a contemporary take on its subject.

Fr�d�ric Back: One with Nature

Thu,18 Jun 2009 16:15:25 EDT

In the galleries at the same time as the exhibition Expanding Horizons, the exhibition Frédéric Back, Artist: A Force of Nature presents exceptional works of art bearing a message of paramount importance to a man who creates from the heart out of his concern for people, animals, the natural environment and the relationships between them. The artist plies his pencil to defend his convictions; nature suffers from humankind’s abuse of power, which erodes the respectful attitude towards nature that enabled us to live in balance with its natural resources.

Kent Monkman

Wed, 6 May 2009 16:15:25 EDT

From May 6 to October 4, 2009, the Museum will present the latest masterwork of Toronto artist Kent Monkman, Dance to the Berdashe. This video installation, composed of five large projections, offers a contemporary re-interpretation of a traditional Aboriginal ritual featuring the Berdashe, that special male figure whose gender-bending behaviour and very existence astonished and appalled many explorers of the American West.