Nathalie Bondil Photo: Robert Skinner
Nathalie Bondil, the former director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) who was forced out last summer after a row with the board chair, has now been appointed as the head of the museums and exhibitions division at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris.
Run by France and 23 Arab states, the IMA opened in 1987 on the left bank of the Seine in a building designed by Jean Nouvel. The French curator was selected to fulfill a three-year mandate there by a jury chaired by Yannick Lintz, the head of the Islamic department at the Louvre Museum, and included Leila Shahid, the former ambassador for Palestine at Unesco, the Lebanese architect Hala Warde and Laurent Le Bon, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. Her appointment in Paris comes less than one year after she was fired from the MMFA, which she is suing for unfair dismissal.
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Let’s try that whole spring thing again this weekend, shall we? After that weird and thankfully brief snowfall on Montreal’s parade this week, everything’s melted away and we can all collectively get back to the business of enjoying the city when it doesn’t require parkas.
A new exhibition at the MMFA
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MONTREAL Montreal s Museum of Fine Arts has its first-ever full-time curator who is Black: 34-year-old Eunice Bélidor, whose appointment was announced earlier this month. She will curate Quebec and Canadian contemporary art at the venerated museum, which was founded 161 years ago. In several recent years it has won the title of most-visited museum in Canada. But for a long time, Bélidor believed she d never have a job like this in Canada, she told CTV. I thought I would need to go to the States to have that type of career, she said. It was only moving to Toronto in 2012, and finding a mentor there curator and fellow onetime Quebecer Gaëtane Verna that changed her mind and made me understand that it was possible to have that type of position in Quebec, she said.
Indigenous housing crisis inspires hopeful art in MMFA exhibition There s a surprising sense of lightness, and life, to Anishinaabe-Québécoise visual artist Caroline Monnet s solo show Ninga Mìnèh.
Author of the article: T Cha Dunlevy • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Caroline Monnet s new exhibition, Ninga Mìnèh, continues through Aug. 1 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette
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Upon entering Caroline Monnet’s new exhibition Ninga Mìnèh at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one is struck by the bright colours.
QF project to use art therapy to help fight depression, anxiety in kids
19 Apr 2021 - 9:17
Michelle Dixon and Dr. Alan Weber
The Peninsula
Doha: One of the themes the project – led by Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and funded by Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Qatar National Research Fund – will focus on is national identity.
In collaboration with the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), the project will use the museum’s artifacts to offer children virtual opportunities to explore their history and roots, while also aiming to counteract some of the effects of social distancing and isolation.
While children have remained largely shielded from the physical impacts of COVID-19, they appear to be the ones suffering most in terms of mental health. Isolation from friends and drastically limited in-person social interaction, while for their own good, has slowly but surely creeped up on their mental well-being. In a time where the need for counseling has increased but in-person counsel