Incoming head must address current and historical social issues while crafting popular shows
The visual arts community heaved a sigh of relief this week as news broke that Quebec curator and gallery director Jean-François Bélisle would be the new director of the National Gallery of Canada.
Under Suda, and her temporary successor Angela Cassie, who is leaving for a new position in Winnipeg, Bélisle, meanwhile, has solid credentials in curating Indigenous works: Joliette won kudos for Gazes in Dialogue, a 2020 show that found an inventive way to display late 19th and early 20th century bronze sculptures from Quebec donated by Toronto collector Ash Prakash.
Running let alone restructuring a big operation is tough and Joliette’s admirable museum is a much smaller institution than the National Gallery, where former directors have tended to come from large public galleries in Montreal and Toronto. In Ottawa, Bélisle will need to navigate extremely delicate politics, with one new power base established in Indigenous Ways and Decolonization and one old one remaining in the National Gallery foundation, which raises money for the gallery.
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