Boursier-Mougenot

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot from here to ear v.19 – until March 27, 2016

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...invite visitors to come and marvel at their collective performance,” said Nathalie Bondil, the Museum’s Director and Chief Curator. 52 Zebra Finches 10 Gibson Les Paul guitars and Fender amplifiers 4 Gibson Thunderbird basses and Roland amplifiers multiple Zildjian cymbals used as water and food trays An unusual musical pairing of birds and electric guitars, from here to ear v. 19 “stars” dozens of enchanting little zebra finches. Native to the A...
Orientalism

Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism – Until May 31, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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...the history of images can teach us how to decode certain prejudices”, says Nathalie Bondil, the MMFA’s director and chief curator. The project required intensive research and a large-scale restoration campaign. The Museum transported from Lille the largest unrolled painting in its history, The Harem (3.25 x 5.37 m), a daunting challenge. In Montreal the expanded version of the exhibition comprises almost 250 works: iconic paintings by Orientalist...
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts First Ranked in Canada

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...ful for validating the institution’s commitment to its visitors,” explains Nathalie Bondil, Director and Chief Curator. “For the MMFA, these results confirm its truly remarkable growth. The MMFA is again first in Canada and the Canadian only museum with more than one million visitors. The MMFA doubled its number of visitors from 2010 to 2014, with growth of 101%. This growth is, however, jeopardized by repeated budget cuts for the fourth consecuti...
Ornament in the Shape of a Human Head, Peru (100-800 A.D.)

Peruvian Treasures at the MMFA Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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...e of founding myths that are unique to this Andean civilization,” explains Nathalie Bondil, Director and Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit begins with photos from Hiram Bingham’s 1911 archeological jackpot discovery of Machu Picchu. The mountaintop site, voted one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, is shown in time lapse video along the side wall. Over a hundred years after Bingham’s ground breaking expedition, the site stil...
Degas

The Impressionists at The Museum of Fine Arts

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...multiple free lectures and films during the next few months. According to Nathalie Bondil, Director and Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, “If you want to understand modern art, you must learn about Impressionism. It is one of the most popular art movements, but it is also revolutionary and brought onto the table topics like feminism, ecology and the art movement.” On display until January 20, 2013, don’t miss this unique opportun...
Astrofest

ASTROFEST – June 3, 2023

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...f the Year from Radio-Canada, for a second time. He will be accompanied by Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette, the Outreach Scientist for the JWST, an astrophysicist and Deputy Director of the iREx and OMM at Université de Montréal, who will explain how the telescope reveals the hidden secrets of the cosmos.You can read more about their career paths here. Schedule Small Step(s) | From 9 am to 11 am The AstroFest kicks off with a free lineup of activit...
Piaf! The Show

Piaf! The Show – January 12, 2023

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...d directed by the Nice-based theatrical maverick Gil Marsalla and starring Nathalie Lermitte, a French performer hailed as “Edith Piaf’s legitimate musical heiress” PIAF! THE SHOW premiered in 2015 as a tribute to “The Swallow of Montmartre” on the centennial on her birthday and was inspired by the award-winning movie La Vie En Rose. In two 45-minutes acts, the show narrates the rags-to-riches story of the Parisian singer’s career through her unfo...
Baroque Festival

Montreal Baroque Festival 2021 in hybrid mode!

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...ch as, notably, Myriam Leblanc (soprano), Jonathon Adams (baritone), Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière (Baroque dancer), Mélisande McNabney (harpsichordist), Jessica Korotkin (cellist), and Jonathan Voyer (santoor player), the Festival will bring together almost 50 musicians and groups from Montreal and Quebec who specialize in early music. Real live performances Opening concert: Bach Cathedral MBF 2021 will be launched by the masterpieces of Bach—cantat...
Stella Musica Festival

Stella Musica Festival – May 19 and 21, 2021

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...y 19, during which influential women active in the Montreal musical scene, Nathalie Maillé, Danièle LeBlanc and Chantal Lambert, will exchange thoughts on the theme of women leadership in the era of COVID-19, and the lessons learned from the past year. On May 21, the Québec soprano France Bellemare, accompanied on the piano by Dominic Boulianne, will offer a program featuring works by Clara Schumann, Kurt Weill and Antonin Dvořák. The public will...
Festival Classica

Festival Classica – from Berlioz to the Bee Gees

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...nist Marc Djokic, pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, Matt Herskowitz, singer Nathalie Choquette and even the Orchestre Métropolitain are all ‘regulars’. You’ll also have a chance to hear young classical and jazz musicians perform with their school ensembles. Opera singer Marc Boucher is the Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of Festival Classica, now in its 9th season Marc earns his living as an opera singer, and spends most of his winters per...