CONTEST! CATS! OH MY!

Time is running out to see Photomontage Between the Wars! It closes on Sunday, December 16th.

Stop by in the next two weeks, snap a picture of your favourite detail from any of the incredible works on display, send it to us on Twitter (@CUArtGallery) by December 16th and you could WIN the beautiful exhibition catalogue!

p.s. This one is the favourite of our Assistant Curator/Registrar/Collections Manager, Patrick Côté. It’s a detail from Nikolai Sidel’nikov’s Maquette for book cover [Who Wins from War], 1932. Collage: photogravure, gouache, ink, and coloured paper on paper.

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Collection Friday!

Malaya Akulukjuk, Ptarmigan in First Snow of Autumn, 1979.

Stencil on paper. Part of the Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art.

Collection Friday! (a bit late)

Tom Harris, Untitled, from the portfolio Rhode Island School of Design, 1976.

Chromogenic print on paper, mounted on card. Gift of Lorraine Monk, 1999.

Hear Adrian Sudhalter discuss the birth of photomontage in Germany and the Soviet Union this Saturday at 2pm!

Image: John Heartfield (German, 1891-1968), A17 no. 17: 1 Mai, July 1930. Magazine cover: rotogravure paper.

The photos are up on Facebook from Friday’s CABARET VOLTAIRE at CUAG. What a fun night! You can also see more photos here: http://goo.gl/xI1rN 

CABARET VOLTAIRE at CUAG is tonight!

7pm in the gallery - get ready for some great performances.

Collection Friday!

Betty Goodwin, Untitled, 1989.

Graphite, charcoal and ink on mylar. Gift of Anne Thompson, 2008.

Screen shot from Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike (1925). Join us tomorrow night for a free screening of the film!