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Gardiner Museum presents a full summer of free public programming
Launched in 2016, the Community Arts Space promotes experimentation and socially-engaged art through a full summer of free public projects, including exhibitions, hands-on workshops, talks, and performances that inspire conversation and social action.
This year’s theme, “What we long for,” explores the ways in which justice and pleasure can co-exist as counterpoints to calling out, gaslighting, exhaustion, and burnout. The four public projects engage with community healing, survival tools, the gaps between community and institutional memory, and how craft creates opportunities for acknowledgment and action.
SMASH: Nourish! Fed Us With a Filling Summer Soirée at The Gardiner Museum
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Hyperallergic and the Gardiner Museum Team Up for Limited-run Podcast Series
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Five Canadian women ceramic artists on their passion for clay
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Gardiner Museum celebrates 35th anniversary with free admission
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Gardiner Museum brings Ai Wei Wei’s provocative questions into sharp relief with new exhibition
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Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds in new Gardiner Museum exhibit imply power of the people
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Ai Weiwei: Unbroken opens at the Gardiner Museum on February 28
On February 28, Ai Weiwei: Unbroken will open at the Gardiner Museum, featuring iconic ceramic works, including Sunflower Seeds and Coca Cola Vase, recent works in blue-and-white porcelain depicting the global refugee crisis, and objects in other media, including wood and marble, that playfully subvert notions of traditional craftsmanship and Chinese cultural identity with pointedly political imagery. The exhibition also marks the international debut of a new LEGO zodiac installation.
Ai Weiwei releases statement in response to tensions between Canada and China ahead of exhibition at Gardiner Museum
Ai Weiwei, one of the world’s most influential artists and activists, and one of China’s most formidable critics, has released a statement through the Gardiner Museum in response to heightened diplomatic tensions between China and Canada since the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and the detainment of two Canadian citizens on suspicion of endangering state security.