Having survived Islamic State, Assyrian capital is under threat once again
The Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan’s installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver re-stages a scene captured at the Iraq Museum in 2003
The province’s enormous expenditure to rebuild the Royal British Columbia Museum should include funding repatriation efforts, the Tseshaht First Nation says
Worsening drought conditions have extended the period when the 3,400-year-old city of Zakhiku is above water, aiding archaeologists’ efforts to study and preserve the site
Many critics of the project remained underwhelmed by the lack of clear vision for the $789m museum
The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art
The proposed museum replacing the current building has been called a “vanity project”
Exeter museum has held various objects belonging to the 19th-century Blackfoot leader Chief Crowfoot since 1878
Hamdani, who served as Iraq’s culture minister from 2018 to 2020, played a vital role in rescuing, restoring and cataloguing the country’s ancient heritage
Local trainees are taking up traditional stone masonry techniques as part of a major Unesco initiative to restore heritage houses damaged in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from Isis
An international restoration plan has been revised after the foundations of an ancient prayer hall were discovered at the site of the Al-Nuri mosque
A new World Monuments Fund project in conjunction with the US embassy in Baghdad aims to repair Iraqi cultural heritage as part of the Future of Babylon project
Treasure trove of ancient Mesopotamian heritage—ransacked after 2003 Iraq invasion—was closed during anti-government protests in 2019
Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes
Artefacts had been "smashed into pieces" by Isis militants when they occupied the Unesco World Heritage site as a training camp
Through partnerships with universities and a forthcoming showcase at the Parliament of British Columbia, Bandura’s 215 portraits are educating Canadians young and old
Hart said receiving the C$100,000 ($80,000) Audain Prize is ‘part of the larger process of reconciliation’
The animal skin is a screen for a video installation that “celebrates the bear’s spirit”, and touches on climate change, Indigenous rights and decolonisation
Only five of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Headless Walking Figures remain outside City Hall, as demand for the artist’s work has grown
Two public projects launching this week highlight the Canadian city’s booming developments, in which only a select few can afford to live
The property, bequeathed to the district by a physician friend of the artist for use as an arts centre, has been neglected for decades
The Qayqayt First Nation artist has created vivid portraits of the residential school victims whose lives were cut short
Stacked car installation that became a roost for local pigeons and starlings—and was covered by their poo—will be restored and eventually relocated
Marking the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of the disease in the US, the Canadian artist and activist expands his One World, One Hope design to a city-sized work
Voxel Bridge, by the Colombian artist Jessica Angel, turns a venerable piece of city infrastructure into a hybrid immersive art work
Vancouver-based Cowichan/Syilx artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun creates new work in memory of dead Indigenous children
Locals cite concerns about property values, obstructed views of nature and the ethnicity of the artist, but Vancouver Biennial organisers say the work will act as a warning beacon for ocean conservation
After popping up in Vancouver, an installation of figures made from trash travels to Toronto and Quebec City
The work has become a community shrine and gathering space for mourners after the remains of children as young as three years old were discovered last week using ground-penetrating radar
Responsible for green spaces that still provide respite to city dwellers around the world, the designer saw her profession as a kind of healing art