october 25, 2022

Art With A Conscience: A Conversation

CCAR presented its special two-part program "Art With A Conscience: A Conversation" on October 25th at The Museum of Modern Art | MoMA. Kaywin Feldman, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Sasha Suda, George D. Widener Director and CEO, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey, Artist, Chicago, IL, Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation and Lisa Hageman Yahgujanaas, Artist, Haida Gwaii, BC, engaged in a discussion that explored critical issues facing cultural organizations and artists now and in the future.

Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YYbJpUEeA

Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti8uSxpeUhU

Program Partners: Consulate General of Canada in New York; U.S. Consulate General Toronto; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada; The National Arts Club; and OCAD University, Toronto.

CCAR thanks its valued supporters: Platinum Partner, BMO Financial Group; Lead Partners, Donner Canadian Foundation, RBC Foundation and TD Securities; Corporate Sponsors, McCarthy Tétrault and Torys LLP. Additional Support from Dorsey & Whitney Foundation.

Photo credits: Feldman: © National Gallery of Art, Washington; Suda: NGC-MBAC; Bey: Whitten Sabbatini; Walker: Justin French

october 12, 2022

General Idea: A Conversation With AA Bronson

CCAR co-presented “General Idea: A Conversation With AA Bronson” on October 12th at The Drawing Center, New York City.

AA Bronson joined Claire Gilman, Chief Curator, The Drawing Center and Stuart Comer, Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, The Museum of Modern Art for a wide-ranging discussion that coincides with important General Idea exhibitions at The Drawing Center and the National Gallery of Canada.

CCAR co-produced this event with The Drawing Center and the National Gallery of Canada, in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.

CCAR thanks our valued supporters: Platinum Partner, BMO Financial Group; Lead Partners, Donner Canadian Foundation, RBC Foundation, and TD Securities; Corporate Sponsors, McCarthy Tétrault, Thomson Reuters and Torys LLP; Additional Support, Dorsey & Whitney Foundation; Media Partner, The Globe and Mail.

March 16, 2022

Charting a New Course for Arts Centers Across the World

Over the past two years, the pandemic has challenged cultural organizations to grapple with serious questions: What is the relationship between the live arts and digital technology? How do we design arts venues and cultural experiences of the future? How do arts organizations embrace their civic responsibilities? How can arts centers become hubs for reconciliation where communities can come together to celebrate cultural identities?

On March 16th CCAR presented: “Charting a New Course for Arts Centers Across the World” – the third in our series: Cross-Border Currents – an online program initiated by CCAR and in partnership with the National Arts Club, New York. We were delighted to include additional partners: Embassy of Canada, Consulate General of Canada in New York and Arts Commons, Calgary.

The program explored how the largest cultural infrastructure project in recent Canadian history, Arts Commons Transformation (ACT), can chart a new course for the arts across the world. Panelists include members of the international design team for ACT’s project:

·       Marianne McKenna of KPMB in Toronto

·     Wanda Dalla Costa of Tawaw Architecture Collective in Phoenix

·       Joshua Dachs of Fisher Dachs Associates in New York City

· Alex Sarian, Arts Commons, Calgary (Moderator)

To watch the program, visit: https://youtu.be/-pDnDymsQfk

CCAR thanks our valued supporters: Platinum Partner, BMO Financial Group; Lead Partners, Donner Canadian Foundation, RBC Foundation, and TD Securities; Corporate Sponsors, McCarthy Tétrault and Thomson Reuters; Additional Support, Dorsey & Whitney Foundation; Media Partner, The Globe and Mail 

november 16, 2021

PICASSO: Painting the Blue Period

PICASSO: Painting the Blue Period, A Conversation - On November 16th at 1 PM EST. Gary Tinterow, Director, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Kenneth Brummel, Associate Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Dr. Susan Behrends Frank, Curator, The Phillips Collection, shed new light on Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period.  

PICASSO was the second of the series Cross-Border Currents - conversations that explore artists and their work based on traveling exhibitions and cultural events. This program was presented in partnership with the National Arts Club and Embassy of Canada, Washington D.C.

CCAR thanks our valued supporters: Platinum Partner, BMO Financial Group; Lead Partners, Donner Canadian Foundation, RBC Foundation, and TD Securities; Corporate Sponsors, McCarthy Tétrault and Thomson Reuters; Additional Support, Dorsey & Whitney Foundation. 

Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room, 1901. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Acquired 1927.

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) © ARS, NY. La chambre bleu (le tub) [The Blue Room]. 1901. Oil on canvas, 51 x 62.5 cm. Photo Credit: Album / Art Resource.

© 2021 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

July 27, 2021

Andy Warhol: A Conversation

ANDY WARHOL: A Conversation - Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik and museum curators Kenneth Brummel, Art Gallery of Ontario and Gregor Muir, Tate Modern, discussed this 20th Century icon in a discussion from New York and Toronto on July 27th.

ANDY WARHOL was the first in a series of Cross-Border Conversations, a partnership between the Council for Canadian American Relations, the Consulate General of Canada in New York and the National Arts Club exploring artists and their work based on traveling exhibitions and cultural events. 

https://youtu.be/RZaGEOntfo4

CCAR thanks our valued supporters: Platinum Partner, BMO Financial Group; Lead Partners, Donner Canadian Foundation, RBC Foundation, and TD Securities; Corporate Sponsors, McCarthy Tétrault and Thomson Reuters; Additional Support, Dorsey & Whitney Foundation.  

© 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation

MAY 8-15

CANADA CONNECTS – A SPECIAL FEATURE OF FRIEZE NEW YORK 2020

The Council is proud to have partnered with the Consulate General of Canada in New York in presenting CANADA CONNECTS – a special feature of Frieze New York 2020.

Nathalie Bondil, Director General & Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) moderated the CANADA CONNECTS Conversation with Canadian gallerists Megan Bradley of Bradley Ertaskiran; Simon Cole of Cooper Cole, and Michael Klein of MKG127. CCAR is grateful to the MMFA for having hosted this event.

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

OPENING NIGHT OF SWAN LAKE, NEW YORK CITY BALLET

CCAR directors and friends were greeted backstage by Guillaume Côté, Principal Dancer, National Ballet of Canada, making his debut with the New York City Ballet on Opening Night of Swan Lake, February 14th.

DECEMBER 19, 2019

OPENING NIGHT of canadian FIRST NATIONS ARTIST KENT MONKMAN, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

CCAR was pleased to partner with The Consulate General of Canada in New York to support the Opening Night presentation of Cree artist Kent Monkman, and his shape-shifting, time-traveling alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on December 19th. Museum Director Max Hollein welcomed cross-border friends of the arts and introduced Monkman, who spoke about his installation “mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People),” on view in The Great Hall. Canadian members, supporters, and cross-border friends of the arts mingled at the reception which followed.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

SPECIAL PREVIEW, ABOUT FACE EXHIBITION, MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Friends of the arts from Canada and the US came together at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on December 10th for a special preview of the exhibition About Face: Photographs by Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Rachel Harrison from the Collection of Carol and David Appel. Nathalie Bondil, Museum Director General and Chief Curator, welcomed CCAR’s Board of Directors and cross-border arts patrons / friends for a guided talk around the collection Arts of One World; Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Curator of International Modern and Contemporary Art, led a special tour that followed focused around About Face in advance of the public opening.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

ERIC FISCHL SPONSORED PUBLIC TALK, MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

CCAR provided a grant to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to support a special day of events featuring internationally acclaimed artist, Eric Fischl, on September 11th, 2019. Fischl spoke about his most important sculpture, Tumbling Woman, which resides in the museum’s Pavilion of Peace. Fischl spoke with students and scholars during the day, and delivered a public talk that evening. Museum Director and Chief Curator, Nathalie Bondil, remarked “having (the work) reside in Montreal will be a lasting testimony to the bond between the United States and Canada.”

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

GLENN GOULD FOUNDATION PRIZE, SPECIAL CELEBRATION FOR 2019 LAUREATE, JESSYE NORMAN, FOUR SEASONS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, TORONTO

CCAR was pleased to serve as a sponsor of the 12th Glenn Gould Foundation’s Prize. A special evening to celebrate 2019 Laureate, Jessye Norman, was held on February 20th at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra performed, led by conductors that included Bernard Labadie and Jean-Philippe Tremblay, among others. Guest presenter Viggo Mortensen introduced a program of exceptional opera greats, including sopranos Sondra Radvanovsky, and Nina Stemme. Miss Norman selected this year’s Protégé Prize winner, American jazz artist, Cécile McLorin Salvant. CCAR’s grant support assisted the Foundation in producing special programs during the week leading up to the ceremony, which included Miss Norman conducting a Master Class for students of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Students from the Jessye Norman School of the Arts, from the artist’s hometown of Augusta, GA, traveled to Toronto for four days of cross-cultural exchange and music workshops with Sistema Toronto. Evening speakers included Canadian Opera Company General Director and CCAR Honorary board member, Alexander Neef, The Globe and Mail’s Gabe Gonda; Prize juror, The Right Honourable Beverley McLaughlin, PC, CC, and other leaders from the fields of business and the arts in Canada and the U.S.
Please credit (c) Estate of Jock Carroll, courtesy of The Glenn Gould Foundation

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

PREVIEW OF: “THE EXTENDED MOMENT: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA”, MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, NEW YORK CITY

CCAR partnered with the American Friends of the National Gallery of Canada to present an exclusive Preview of: “The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada” at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. Dr. Colin B. Bailey, Director, welcomed Dr. Joel Smith, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, who provided a tour of the exhibition in advance of its opening. Guests included Phyllis Yaffe, Consul General of Canada in New York; Karen Colby-Stothart, Chief Executive Officer, National Gallery of Canada Foundation; Ann Thomas, Interim Chief Curator, National Gallery of Canada, CCAR Co-Chair Ellen Kratzer and other Directors: Judy Ney, Miles D. Price, Sarah Robertson, and Shawn Trudeau, and additional cross-border and friends from Ottawa and New York City. Michael and Elsa Adams, Ottawa; Clair Fitzgerald, NYC; Greg and Aline Gooding, NYC; Rosamond Ivey, Toronto; Susan and Peter Restler, NYC

April 13,2017

Private Rehearsal and Conversation with national ballet of canada principal dancers

CCAR was pleased to host Canadian-American Friends for a special Private Rehearsal by The National Ballet of Canada Principal Dancers Svetlana Lunkina and Evan McKie at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on April 13, 2017. The dancers rehearsed The White Swan Pas de Deux by choreographer David Dawson from his new Swan Lake. The piece was rehearsed in advance of its US Premiere that evening. Immediately following the rehearsal, writer-critic Marina Harss moderated a conversation with the dancers. Special guests included Deputy Consul General of Canada in New York Heidi Kutz, Chairman of the Board of The National Ballet of Canada David W. Binet and many cross-border arts supporters.

February 16, 2013

Premiering Parsifal and Private Dinner

CCAR organized a private reception and dinner, hosted by Louise Blouin on February 16, 2013, following the opening of Wagner’s Parsifal at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The Ambassador of Canada to the United States Gary Doer and  Consul General of Canada in New York John F. Prato welcomed cross-border guests. The production's artistic contributors: Director François Girard, Set Designer Michael Levine, HD Telecast Director Barbara Willis-Sweete and Canadian Opera Company General Director Alexander Neef took part in a post-dinner discussion on the theme of artistic collaboration, moderated by producer Martin Katz.