Curator’s Talk

Tuesday, October 24, 12:30 – 1:20 pm

Join us for a public talk by Ihor Holubizky, Senior Curator at the McMaster Museum of Art, about the exhibition A Cultivating Journey: The Herman H. Levy Legacy on Tuesday October 24 from 12:30 to 1:20 pm.

Admission is Free and all are welcome.

A Cultivating Journey examines and celebrates the collection of significant European historical and modern art donated to the McMaster Museum of Art by Hamilton businessman Herman H. Levy in 1984 and artworks later purchased with his generous bequest. Featured are paintings by Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Chaim Soutine, Vincent van Gogh and more. It is on view at McMaster Museum of Art until 9 December, 2017 and will tour to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2018. Other venues and dates, to be announced.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Dr. Ihor Holubizky is the Senior Curator at the McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University. He received his PhD in Art History from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Holubizky has contributed to numerous publications, catalogues, and journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia over the past thirty-five years.

An art and cultural historian, musician and composer, Ihor Holubizky has held curatorial positions in Canada – at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Kelowna Art Gallery and, most recently, Museum London – and in Australia, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Queensland University of Technology Cultural Precinct and Art Museum, Brisbane. He has taught at McMaster University, the Ontario College of Art, and has guest lectured in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Japan and Australia.