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Tradition and Socialism: Art and Archeology in North Korea
Jane Portal, Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thursday February 3 2011, 1- 5 pm  

Director's Gallery Talk Series
Niamh O'Laoghaire
Automatism and Quebec Abstraction in the University College Collection
Tuesday 25 January 2011

Landscapes in The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University 

Curator Matthew Brower discusses the work of Arthur Lismer, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson and J.E.H. MacDonald in this first segment highlighting the Landscape section of the exhibition, The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University.

Landscapes in The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University 

Curator Matthew Brower discusses the work of Thomas Mower Martin and David  Blackwood in this second segment highlighting the Landscape section of the exhibition, The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University.

Mythologies of Life and Culture in The University College Collection:
Great Art for a Great University 

Curator Matthew Brower discusses the work of André Bieler and John Bennett in the Mythologies of Life and Culture section of the exhibition, The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University.

Mythologies of Life and Culture in The University College Collection:
Great Art for a Great University

Curator Matthew Brower discusses the work of Charles Pachter, Carl Ray, Jean Dallaire, Norval Morrisseau, Joyce Wieland, Florence Vale, and Ashevak Kenojuak in the Mythologies of Life and Culture section of the exhibition, The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University  

Places in The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University 

University College, designed by Frederick Cumberland and William G. Storm, has inspired artists, amateur and professional since its inception. Director Niamh O'Laoghaire presents a tour of theses images dating from when the building was still in a rural setting by the banks of Taddle Creek, through to the 1980s. The College is shown in at least three of the four seasons and the mood varies from the celebratory to mysterious, to the dramatic and suspenseful. Some concentrate on the College as a whole, others focus on details. Together the images constitute a history of the building and its surroundings.

People in The University College Collection: Great Art for a Great University 

Director, Niamh O'Laoghaire discuses portraits in the University College Collection, including those of important office-holders of the University of Toronto and University College. These works are contrasted with portraits of UC members offering a foil to the rather staid official portraits. O'Laoghaire also highlights the work of a handful of professors in University College, who apart from their academic pursuits were noted artists, including  Sir Daniel Wilson, Barker Fairley and Robert Finch. 

Master of Museum Studies Thesis Exhibition
Curatorial Team Visits to Artists' Studios
Sarah Heim, Rachel Keeling and Jilana Stewart
January 11 2011

Artists featured:
K. Dorothea Hines, Sebastian Koever, Andre Markovic, Emily Mahon, Patti Meris, Meaghan O’Brien, Breann Ritchie

Highlights from the Malcove Collection

UTAC Director, Niamh O'Laoghaire discusses various aspects of two works by Oskar Schlemmer: Person Holding a Brush, and Head of a Girl Turned to the Left.