The recently passed federal budget includes a pledge to provide artists royalties when their work is resold on the secondary market
Jeff Cowan had been accused of sourcing forgeries and fabricating false provenance documents
Across the day’s four sales in Toronto, the auction house set new secondary-market records for 16 artists’ work
The lion’s share of the donated pieces, from the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp, are prints and photographs
The museum now boasts a gallery dedicated to Indigenous ceramics, expanded education facilities and enough space to display around 40% of its collection
The British Columbia-based artist, who is a member of the Secwépemc First Nation, described the experience of taking home the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award as “a waking dream”
The Vatican is working with the Canadian Catholic Church to return Indigenous artefacts
Canada’s biggest art fair appeared to benefit from the Toronto Blue Jays’ first crack at baseball’s top trophy since 1993
Canada’s largest art fair spotlights a growing market for work by Indigenous artists while challenging stereotypes and expectations
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, world’s most important collection of works by the Group of Seven, has picked Hariri Pontarini Architects to expand and modernise its facilities
Amid trade war between US and Canada, Toronto’s largest art fair strengthens ties with Latin America’s art scene
Vivo Media Arts Centre has been a cornerstone of the new media community in Vancouver, throughout Canada and internationally since 1973
“The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes” is premiering in Vancouver as interest in Hughes’s life and work grows among Canadian collectors and institutions
Students at a Vancouver university will analyse the designs and materials with a view to identifying where and when the items originate from
The $C100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts recognises the achievements of artists from Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia
After abandoning a costly design by Swiss starchitects, the museum has picked Vancouver-based Formline Architecture and Urbanism and Toronto-based KPMB Architects to take on the project
The artist and film-maker’s new feature, “Powwow People”, highlights the very contemporary ways in which Indigenous traditions persist
Inspired by the “Encyclopedia Africana” conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois, the filmic collage of African and diasporic culture is on the film festival circuit
After the museum’s fur-st show, founder Aqeela Nahani hopes to open a purr-manent space in 2026
Materials from the 1955-56 exhibition, including 83 photographs, were rediscovered in Austria in 2006
The dispute over the future location of “Trans Am Rapture” has prompted duelling petitions, with the municipal government calling off the reinstallation to find a new site
Simon Fraser University near Vancouver will open its new Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum in September
The 20-year-old collaborative installation, which recently dropped anchor in Ontario, will travel to Uzbekistan next
Little is known about the vast collection of art and artefacts the Hudson’s Bay Company amassed from its founding in 1670, but experts believe it includes many important pieces of Canada’s First Nations and colonial heritage
James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking
The layoffs come amid a $23.4m deficit in the last fiscal year and represent around 20% of unionised employees
The small landscape painting was consigned to a Toronto auction house a decade ago, but had not been seen since 2021
The acquisition comes as the museum’s photography department prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary
The donation, from the Vancouver-based collector and businessman Bob Rennie, is the largest in the gallery's history
The prize, now in its 22nd year, will be the subject of a group show in Ottawa this autumn, and the winner will be revealed in November