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Tuesday 23 April
7°C and Broken Clouds
Another milestone: Agnes is closed to the public as we prepare for Agnes Reimagined. Stay tuned for plans for off-site programming!

Detail from Transformations. Photo: Paul Litherland

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Creation Station, 2023. Photo: Tim Forbes

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Installation view of Camille Turner's "Dream Room" (2022) showing iceberg like structures to sit on with a dreamy interstellar light display in reds, greens, blues and purples.

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Digital Exhibitions and Publications

Collection Highlights

Interactive map in the Bader Gallery for Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges.

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Maquette of Agnes Reimagined. Photo: Paul Litherland

Queen’s University art centre set to become the largest university museum in Canada

Film still from He Thought He Died featuring a view of Agnes’s vaults.

World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival!

12 September 2023

Portrait of Qanita Lilla. Photo: Shelby Lisk

CBC’s All in a Day with Alan Neal and Qanita Lilla

Agnes’s collections staff and curator move the African collection from the vault to above ground.

How an African collection of art in Canada is celebrated with care and community

Norval Morrisseau, The Dawn, 1979, serigraph on paper. From The Art of Norval Morrisseau: Collection of Five Prints in Original Portfolio. Gift of Guardian Capital Group Limited, 2020

12 Art Exhibitions to Discover in Canada this Summer

Students from Central Public School on a school field trip to Agnes get to play and dance in Etherington House, an extension of the exhibition a guest + a host = a ghost.

Canadian Architect features Agnes Reimagined

1 February 2023

View looking east down Princess Street, Kingston, Ont., 1890. (Queen's University Archives)

Curating early Black experiences in Kingston, Canada’s first capital, a city long defined by histories of whiteness

19 January 2023

Portrait of Britta B.

Agnes’s programs are shortlisted for GOG Awards!

25 October 2022

Marla Dobson pulls out a rack of paintings in the Agnes vaults.

The gallery is packing up the collection – with great care

Carstian Luyckx, Still Life with Gilt Cup, Glass Holder, Silver Beaker, Nautilus Shell, Fruit and Oysters Arranged on a Draped Ledge, around 1650, oil on copper. Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Gift of Isabel Bader, 2021

Building on the Gift of Art

1 November 2021

Agnes's facade

Decolonizing the Agnes: in conversation with Emelie Chhangur

6 November 2020

Emelie Chhangur portrait. Photo: Tim Forbes

Meet Emelie Chhangur, Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

4 November 2020

Rembrandt van Rijn, Head of an Old Man in a Cap, around 1630, oil on panel. Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2003 (46-031)

Book Review: Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges

1 September 2020

Heather Parker leads a tour of the exhibition The Pathos of Mandy: Walter Scott for the Society of Graduate Students.

Opportunities at the Agnes!

Kate Ducharme, Visitor Services Assistant welcomes visitors as they arrive. Photo: Tim Forbes

Agnes reopens with safety measures

Agnes facade. Photo: Tim Forbes

$40-million gift for the Agnes and a new home for the Bader Collection

Agnes facade in spring

The Agnes goes digital

Charlotte Gagnier, Program Assistant, dramatically recreated Hendrick ter Brugghen (workshop of), “David with the Head of Goliath,” around 1629, oil on canvas. Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2014 (57-001.07).

Between art and quarantine

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