Exhibitions
Monthly Archive: December Exhi
Turning Fear Into Fascination
As you enter the Royal Ontario Museum's latest exhibition, you are immediately swarmed by scurrying spiders; hundreds of them, crawling all around you. But you can't touch them- they aren't real.
A Viking's Life
The term “Viking” is often synonymous with pirate or robber, and evokes violence. But is that a false impression of the people from the north?
Our Future is Deep in the Ocean
Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Shawn Wu
Written in Mandarin, this is a story about the Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story exhibition and the powerful role these magnificent creatures play in our oceans.
Storytelling: Art, Culture, Nature
Guest blog by Environmental Visual Communication graduate Samantha Stephens
Art, Culture, Nature. They may be separate words, but if we consider them separate disciplines, we are doing a disservice to the potential of human wisdom. Without nature, there is no culture. Without culture, there is no art. EVC grad Samantha Stephens gives us some examples of how these themes intertwine in recent ROM research and exhibits, including the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit, open now!
Tattoos: Famously Inked
Tattooing has made a comeback as an emblem of choice and as an expression of one's identity in an ever more globalized world. It has acquired the status of an art form: tattooing has gravitated from the margins to the mainstream. From historical figures to modern celebrities, tattoos have spread throughout the ages. Bet you didn't realize these famous figures had tattoos...
1) Justin Trudeau
Tattoos: Today
Although tattooing has deep roots across cultures and has spread globally, across several millennia, the Western perception of tattoos, the tattooist, and the tattooed has had connotations of deviance.
Tattoos: Arctic
How tattoos are viewed in the Arctic communities.
Tattoos: Exploring Tattoo Culture Around the World
Tattoos: Ritual, Identity, Obsession and Art.
Tattoos: Japan
Guest blog by Asato Ikeda, Curator (Bishop White Postdoctoral Fellow of Japanese Art).
The Tattoo Hunter
Guest blog by Doug Wallace
Anthropologist Lars Krutak has documented the tattoo traditions of Indigenous people all over the world, from the Amazon to the high Arctic.
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