Best of Post-War Britain

Once again, the Gallery collaborates with the Atlantic Film Festival with our five o'clock film series, screened daily in the gallery during the Festival. Selected to complement the Festival's Strategic Partners Co-Production Conference with the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Ron Foley Macdonald's choices also emphasise some decidedly literary connections in post-War British filmmaking.

Friday, 12 September - The Third Man

Carol Reed, 1949, 104 minutes

AbEx to PoMo (by way of Nova Scotia)

In 1953, the year that the Dalhousie Art Gallery was officially named, Abstract Expressionism was in full swing throughout North America. 50 years later, despite perennial announcements of its demise, painting has demonstrated the capacity to reinvent itself again and again, and remains a force to be reckoned with in the protean world of Post-Modernism. This exhibition presents paintings, both figurative and abstract, produced by Canadian artists and acquired for the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s permanent collection during the last 50 years.

Francisco Goya y Luicentes The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters Plate 43 from Los Caprichos c1797-1799 Prints Division, New York Public Library

GOYA: Los Proverbios: Marvels and Monsters

The great, late-eighteenth-century Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes is famous for his court portraits and his monumental print series The Disasters of War.

Walk Ways

Curator Stuart Horodner wrote that the exhibition Walk Ways "brings together a selection of works by a diverse group of artists who have focused on the theme of walking, a purposeful or meandering activity that unites bodily and mental freedom.