Artist Barbara Astman Talks Shop
February 23, 2012
Last week, visiting artist Barbara Astman spoke about her latest installation/intervention just inside the Museum’s front door. The work is titled Dancing With Che: Enter Through the Giftshop (and yes, the Banksy reference is deliberate). Her lively talk and the discussion that followed touched on everything from souvenir shopping and Astman’s photo on the cover of the 1980 Loverboy album to General Idea and Marcel Duchamp’s Boite en Valise (both are represented in McMaster’s collection.)
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Fall 2026 Exhibitions at the McMaster Museum of Art
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Connected Histories, Research, and Archives—Interview with Nnamdi Nnake
September 1, 2026
What stories can the telegraph tell? More than a century after telegraph lines began to stretch across Nigeria, Connected Histories: The Telegraph in Nigeria invites visitors to take a fresh look at a technology that helped shape modern communications, colonial governance, labour, and everyday life. Drawing on the doctoral research of McMaster University PhD candidate Nnamdi Nnake, the exhibition brings together rare artifacts, archival […]
