Exhibit | Art & Design: Album cover art through the decades
An album is not just about the sounds on the record. Like sheet music, which creates its visual aesthetic through images and notation, albums cultivate their artistic vision through cover art.
Exhibit | The Art of Adornment: Selections of Jewellery from the Islamic Era
Far from being the most commonly studied form of Islamic art, “jewellery is among the oldest form of decorative art”[1] in Muslim societies, and has a deep and long history in different parts of the Muslim World. The one thousand years time span and the many regional Muslim cultures represented make it difficult to generalize on the place and role of jewellery in Muslim Societies[2].
Exhibition: Inside a family’s private library: old and rare books from the Estate of Luce VanderNoot = Regarde intime sur une bibliothèque de famille: le legs de Luce VanderNoot.
Right between the World Wars in Gent, Belgium, two families cherished books so much that they found a way to barter certain basic goods, in order to develop a collection of old and rare editions.
Exhibit | Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority
The Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) was founded in 1971 as a postgraduate program at McGill University’s School of Architecture by Columbian architect and alumnus Alvaro Ortega.
Exhibit | Gathering the Spectacular: Extra-Illustrated Editions & Acquisitions featuring The Rare Burney Collection
Presented in conjunction with the Burney Society Conference: “The Burneys: Isolation, Gatherings, and Celebrations”
13-14 June 2023 in Montreal.
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