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Rembrandt’s work joins with art by Black and Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Canada this spring

An exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt is coming to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in May, the first major loan show of the Old Master’s work in the country in more than 50 years. Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition will include paintings, drawings and prints from the artist’s first two decades working in…

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I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape.

Most of the crises I’ve lived through during my more than 50 years on this planet haven’t really ended. The AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and ’90s continues, especially among populations without access to expensive, lifesaving treatments. The moral rot of the Vietnam War and the reckless corruption of the Nixon years now seem mere…

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