Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Niki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan
The permanent sculptures by Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart and Wendat Nation artist Ludovic Boney were unveiled in Québec City’s Cap Diamant on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
The annual prize, which honours an artist based in British Columbia, comes with C$100,000 cash
Prosecutors described David Voss as the leader of a forgery ring that created thousands of fake works by Norval Morrisseau
The Zumurrud Khatun Mosque and Mausoleum have undergone a heavy-handed restoration—and there is a risk of further damage to come
The museum’s director claimed the sharp increase was due to a precipitous rise in construction costs in recent years, though a prominent collector called this explanation “preposterous”
A prolific painter helped open doors for contemporary artists at a time when Indigenous art was often confined to ethnographic museums
The artists—and pop star Avril Lavigne—were among 83 new appointees to the Order of Canada
Nico Williams has created a series of colourful interventions along an elevated highway that cuts through the city centre
Last spring Pope Francis said “this is going on, with Canada”, but since there has been little movement on repatriation
The famed explorer died aboard the Quest in 1922; the ship sank in the Labrador Sea 40 years later
Susanna Blunt alleges the dealer Benjamin Lumb promised to compensate her for a stolen piece and knocked over several works in a “domino effect”
A restoration campaign for St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto is already underway, but its historic art is lost forever
The Contact Photography Festival’s main sponsor, Scotiabank, has a large stake in Elbit Systems, which makes armoured vehicles, drones and other weapons
Deal puts 12th-century monastery, Ottoman-era houses and Roman ruins at risk
The strike comes after a breakdown in negotiations between the workers’ union and museum administrators, and as the institution pursues a C$100m expansion
His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic
This year’s winners of the prestigious Canadian honour include the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona and Saskatchewan-based curator Michelle Jacques
The exhibition, originally held at the 2022 Venice Biennale, will open at P21 Gallery with new works on show
Wanda Nanibush left the institution after a letter accusing her of “hate speech” was circulated by the group Israel Museums and Arts, Canada
The findings in the Upano Valley, researchers say, counter racist and dismissive attitudes about Amazonian heritage
Work on a water line near the city’s Greektown section has turned up human remains believed to be at least 700 years old
An exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery grapples with how the museum ended up with ten fake works previously attributed to J.E.H. MacDonald, a member of the famous Group of Seven
The action, staged on International Human Rights Day, lasted 64 minutes in observance of the 64 days since the Israel-Hamas war began
Wanda Nanibush's departure has been linked to a leaked letter accusing her of “posting inflammatory, inaccurate rants against Israel”
Stan Douglas, Ken Lum, Douglas Coupland and others are helping efforts to raise C$8m for housing for Vancouver’s homeless
The Royal Ontario Museum had edited wall text and cropped an image of a painting, which the artist says amounted to “censorship and alteration”
The annual exhibition is one of several contemporary art events taking place in the region
The 2,700-year-old lamassu—a protective deity—had been excavated previously, in 1992, but was reburied for its protection
Two artists, Heba Zagout and Muhammed Sami Qariqa, are among the nearly 4,000 Gazans who have died in the escalating conflict