history Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/history/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 07:30:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-mma_favicon_24bit_alt-32x32.png history Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/history/ 32 32 Rebecca Belmore: March 5, 1819 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/rebecca-belmore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebecca-belmore Wed, 02 May 2018 14:35:38 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9638 March 5, 1819 is a recently acquired video work that considers the frantic final moments before Demasduit, a young Beothuk woman (later renamed Mary March) is captured by colonists at Red Indian Lake in Newfoundland.

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]]> Curator’s Talk by Mark A. Cheetham on Oct 4 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/curators-talk-mark-cheetham-oct-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=curators-talk-mark-cheetham-oct-4 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:45:41 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=8899 Join us this week as Professor Cheetham leads a talk and tour of the exhibition Struck by Likening: The Power & Discontents of Artworld Analogies.

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]]> Video: Deanna Bowen’s Artist Talk https://museum.mcmaster.ca/video-deanna-bowens-artist-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=video-deanna-bowens-artist-talk Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:08:40 +0000 http://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=5981 On March 19, Toronto artist Deanna Bowen presented an artist’s talk at the Museum as a complement to her artwork in the group exhibition This is Me, This is Also Me.

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]]> Workingman’s Dead: Lives of the Artists https://museum.mcmaster.ca/workingmans-dead-lives-of-the-artists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=workingmans-dead-lives-of-the-artists Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:55:46 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4686 An exhibition of paintings by Leopold Plotek and selections from the SOVFOTO Archive.

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]]> Baseball and Other Facets of Radcliffe Bailey’s ‘Diamond’ https://museum.mcmaster.ca/baseball-and-other-facets-of-radcliffe-baileys-diamond/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=baseball-and-other-facets-of-radcliffe-baileys-diamond Tue, 27 May 2014 19:13:48 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4543 The McMaster Museum of Art was delighted to have Radcliffe Bailey’s Diamond enter the collection in 2012, a generous gift of David and Julie Moos, and is doubly pleased to present it in this summer’s exhibition Structure of the World.

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]]> Landmark Moment in Canadian Art: Hamilton’s Herman Levy was there https://museum.mcmaster.ca/landmark-moment-in-canadian-art-hamiltons-herman-levy-was-there/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=landmark-moment-in-canadian-art-hamiltons-herman-levy-was-there https://museum.mcmaster.ca/landmark-moment-in-canadian-art-hamiltons-herman-levy-was-there/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:05:43 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=3969 Earlier this year, Sotheby’s Canada announced that it was ceasing live auctions. Their very first live auction was held in 1967 at the Arcadian Court, Simpsons in Toronto and, as it happens, Hamilton businessman Herman H. Levy (McMaster Museum of Art’s greatest benefactor), was in attendance.

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