TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION
Thursday January 14th, 1–2 PM (In English)
with Mélanie Rainville, Max Stern Curator of the Permanent Collection, and Michèle Thériault, Gallery Director.
TOURS OF THE VAULT
Wednesday January 27th, 2–3 PM (In French)
Tuesday February 2nd, 2–3 PM (In English)
Thursday February 11th, 2–3 PM (In English)
with Mélanie Rainville, Max Stern Curator of the Permanent Collection. Places are limited and reservations are required.
SCREENING OF HERB & DOROTHY
Saturday January 30th, 6 PM
Megumi Sasaki’s award-winning documentary Herb & Dorothy (2008) tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections with very modest means.
In English with French subtitles. Running time: 89 minutes.
FREE
At the de Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, LB-125 (Ground floor).
LUNCHTIME TALK
Wednesday February 3rd, 12:30-1:30 PM (In French)
Talk by Francine Couture, Professor in the Department of Art History at UQAM and Suzanne Lemerise, Adjunct Professor at l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM.
Artistic coming of age in the 1960s: from marginality to institutional recognition
During the 1960s, the State’s intervention in arts and culture transformed artistic practice with the Quebec government’s creation of the Ministère des affaires culturelles and the Musée d’art contemporain. A new image of the modern artist also appeared, emerging from the fringes to take on a social and professional identity. This lecture will illustrate how the new environment changed the way artists were taught in the province’s various educational institutions, including the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and Sir George Williams University.