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Today the City of Toronto announced more participants in this year’s edition of Nuit Blanche, the free sunset-to-sunrise visual-art event due to kick off on the night...
Vancouver’s Stan Douglas has been named winner of the third annual Scotiabank Photography Award. The award was announced this evening at Toronto’s Ryerson Image Centre. As winner, Douglas receives...
Last night, Christie's contemporary art auction in New York brought in $495 million, which the company says is the highest total of any art auction yet. And Heffel’s...
Donna Livingstone has been named as president and chief executive officer of Glenbow Museum, effective immediately. For the past six months—since the departure of former president and CEO...
The Bois de Boulogne may be far from Yonge Street, but Paris artists and Toronto scenes are a bit closer than that—at least this year. Paris-Toronto, a multi-event...
Marie-Eve Beaulieu has won the 2013 Sylvie and Simon Blais Award for Emerging Visual Artists. Beaulieu, a graduate student at UQAM, will receive $2,000 and a solo exhibition...
Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts has announced its 2013 awards to be presented tonight in Toronto. For the first time, there are two winners of the TFVA's...
The plans have been revealed for art collector and philanthropist Michael Audain's art museum in Whistler—and they show big changes ahead if the plan is approved by...
Admission has been free at Toronto's Power Plant this past year for its 25th anniversary. Now, it will continue to be free for three more years, until June...
Leading Chinese artist and filmmaker Yang Fudong, featured at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2007, is due to debut a new installation in Toronto in June. Yang's...
Vancouver City Council has unanimously approved an expansion and move plan for the Vancouver Art Gallery. Currently, the gallery is located at 750 Hornby Street; is hopes to...
Irish curator and writer Georgina Jackson has been appointed the director of exhibitions and publications at Mercer Union in Toronto. She is due to begin her position...
This morning, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation announced the longlist for the 2013 Sobey Art Award. The 2013 curatorial panel has announced...
The Vancouver Art Gallery has received an initial go-ahead from the City of Vancouver for a long-proposed move to 688 Cambie Street, currently a parking lot, in...
Big changes continued to hit the Montreal art scene this week with the announcement that the Biennale de Montreal and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal would...
RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced the jury panel members for the 15th anniversary of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. The nine-member jury...
Today, it was announced that a world premiere installation by Marina Abramović will be featured at Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park as part of the Luminato festival in...
A new photo festival is due to launch in Vancouver this fall. Running from October 1 to November 15, the inaugural Capture Festival is inspired by events like...
Canadian residents and artists Kim Adams and Scott Conarroe have been named as 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. Adams, based in Toronto, is known for sculptural works that can create...
On Saturday, April 27, 2013, the Canadian Art Foundation, in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, invites art lovers to join in our annual Vancouver...
Though it debuted with much fanfare, there seemed at first to be little news for artists and the art sector in the 2013 federal budget released last...
Canada's presence has expanded on the Google Art Project with additions this week from the Canada Council Art Bank in Ottawa and the Pointe-à-Caillère Museum in Montreal. New...
Sarah Watson has been appointed director of Artexte in Montreal, replacing Sylvie Gilbert, who accepted a position with the Canada Council in January. She is due to...
The creator of master site plans for London's Tate Britain and Edinburgh's National Gallery of Modern Art has been appointed to develop a new direction forward for...
The first female First Nations artist to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, a sound artist and composer who has turned public spaces into instruments, and a member...
The board of directors of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery announced today that Marilyn Smith, executive director, will retire from the gallery in mid-July. Succeeding Smith is Ryan...
BC philanthropist and collector Michael Audain has gifted $5 million to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, creating the largest individual gift ever received by...
New York’s largest art fair, the Armory Show, opens to the public tomorrow—and with it, as usual, comes a flood of other art fairs, events, openings and...
Canadian artists Stan Douglas, Angela Grauerholz and Robert Walker have been shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Photography Award, which has a first prize comprising $50,000, a major...
Yesterday, the National Gallery of Canada announced in a press release that it was eliminating 29 existing positions and creating 7 new ones in a series of...
