Interim director Angela Cassie says hires are imminent, but the absence of senior talent is clear in lacklustre programming
Sitting in a Toronto café as she waits for a flight back to Ottawa, Angela Cassie reassures an interviewer that the National Gallery of Canada is hiring new curators. “We are actively recruiting in a lot of areas,” the gallery’s interim director said.
“It is very significant,” Ms. Cassie said, explaining that previously the curatorial and the operations sides of the gallery were separate. “We are trying to bring those departments closer together.” Angela Cassie, the gallery's interim director, says they are 'actively recruiting' in a number of areas.Contemporary art has lost its top curators because Ms. Drouin-Brisebois is working on beefing up the National Gallery’s presence across the country beyond the usual touring shows or loans, while Jonathan Shaughnessy, her former associate curator, is now director of curatorial initiatives.
Ms. Cassie says COVID disruptions to the exhibition schedule are largely over and that the gallery is on track with a standard three-year planning cycle: 2023 is in place; 2024 is in the works and 2025 will be anchored by the next edition of Àbadakone, the survey of contemporary global Indigenous art that wowed visitors in 2019-2020 .
The next big bet is the Jean-Paul Riopelle retrospective in the fall, an exhibition where independent curator Sylvie Lacerte promises a fresh, 21st-century take on the Quebec abstractionist in his centenary year. Her job will be to prove that Mr. Riopelle is still relevant: A 2021 exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts featuring his work inspired by the Canadian landscape and Indigenous art wasn’t convincing on that score.
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