Art, Audience, Gallery: A Conversation

The history of the art gallery, although not as long as the history of art, is long enough to have its own complexities. Art has been displayed in many places: in the long galleries of manor houses, where family portraits line up to look down on their progeny; in the private houses of wealthy collectors and patrons; in the fashionable yearly salons of the Academies at which the year’s artistic production was displayed and debated; in the temple-like precincts of the newly-formed museums of the nineteenth century; and in the modern white box we are all familiar with today. But throughout the art gallery’s history, art has always spoken and the gallery has provided a place for the conversation, whatever sort of conversation that may be.

Image Credit:

Molly Lamb Bobak
Untitled (Docent in Gallery), 1950
oil on coloured paper
50.4 x 65.6 cm
Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery

Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the City of Regina Arts Commission.

Art, Audience, Gallery: A Conversation

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