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Bader Philanthropies Inc. is donating $40 million USD or $54 million CAD to Queen’s University for the revitalization and expansion of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and to build a home for the Bader Art Collection, which holds almost 500 European paintings. The investment, which is the largest gift Queen’s
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Formally recognized at last night’s City Council meeting, and celebrated at a ceremony on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, the City of Kingston has announced this year’s recipients of the Mayor’s Arts Awards. The Mayor’s Arts Awards celebrate high artistic achievement and recognize extraordinary contributions in and to the arts in
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Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands Mark Gerretsen visited the Agnes Etherington Art Centre today to announce that the federal government was investing $3.2 million in Queen’s University and their partnerships with female entrepreneurs in Eastern Ontario. The investment is part of the federal government’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy
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The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is unveiling Rembrandt van Rijn’s Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair (1659) on Friday, May 3, 2019 as part of their Spring/Summer Season Launch. Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair will join three other Rembrandts previously donated to Agnes collection
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Summertime is the time for road trips! Pictured above is the car and trailer that were used by artist Alan Collier during his annual sketching trips across Canada. There are thousands of slides in this collection depicting Canada’s diverse landscape from coast to coast to coast. The slides were used
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With March Break starting tomorrow, now seems like a good time for us to take a close look at the many art galleries in Kingston. While we usually make museums and galleries a key part of visiting other cities, we often find ourselves neglecting the great artistic and historical offerings
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Temperatures are finally falling, and for me that often means down-time is spent at home with a good book and a warm drink. But no matter how stimulating the reading material, one eventually tires of being housebound. Fall may in fact be the best time of year for visiting museums
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Dr. John Burge has been a music professor at The Dan School of Drama and Music since 1987. He has composed a large body of instrumental and vocal music in all genres and in 2009 he won the Juno for Best Canadian Classical Composition for his work “Flanders Fields Reflections”.
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The #ygkChallenge is an ongoing series where we dare you to be different, resolve to be better, and or do something awesome in support of our beloved community. Each week, Kingstonist establishes a new, ambitious or quirky goal, encouraging you to step out of your comfort zone and do something
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With the holidays behind us and winter finally showing its face (rearing its ugly head?), we’re looking ahead to some great things to look forward to in the month of January. We scoured our events calendar to find what we think are some of the best events being offered in
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By chance or design, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has juxtaposed two fascinating—albeit wildly different—feminist exhibits this spring. The first, The Artist Herself, is a curated collection of self-portraits by 55 female Canadian artists, all done before 1970. The collection expands the definition of self-portrait to include virtually any type
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Vancouver-based Douglas Coupland may be best known for writing acerbic and hilarious novels such as Generation X and The Gum Thief, but he’s also quite an accomplished visual artist. He works in a wide range of media, and some notable sculptural pieces include Digital Orca adjacent to the Vancouver Convention
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