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

The Montréal-based artist, known for his intricate sculptural beadwork, received the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2024

From an initial field of 30 nominees, a shortlist of just six artists is now competing for the prize

Thirty artists are nominated for the Sobey Art Award this year, with the total purse for the award growing to C$465,000

The 2023 Sobey Art Award went to the Calgary-based artist, who is known for her wide-ranging, multidisciplinary approach that incorporates and reimagines Inuk traditions

Three million of the coins, affectionately known as “toonies”, will go into circulation to mark the artist’s centennial

The fair's Focus section, curated this year by Candice Hopkins, includes strong representation of Native American and First Nations artists

A man was arrested following the action, which was organised by the Canadian activist group On2Ottawa

The winner of the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2023 will be announced in November

NGC's new director, formerly chief curator of Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec, enters the organisation at a turbulent time in its management

The pioneering abstract painter’s legacy will be front and centre in Montréal, Ottawa, Paris and elsewhere

From an exhibition celebrating Canadian women artists to a major centennial retrospective of Jean Paul Riopelle, the museum has ambitious plans for 2023

In an internal memo to staff, the museum's interim director wrote that the sudden changes were made "to better align the gallery’s leadership team with the organisation’s new strategic plan"

The Winnipeg-born artist’s work spans many media and often incorporates humour all the while addressing issues of identity, repatriation and cultural consumption

Works by the finalists vying for the country’s top contemporary art prize will go on view at the National Gallery in Ottawa in October

In Philadelphia, Sasha Suda will succeed Timothy Rub, whose 13-year tenure included both major achievements and significant turmoil

A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada aims to make the trio's “complex practice a bit more accessible”

The new department, which pursue greater inclusivity and representation of Indigenous perspectives and art, will be led by Michelle LaVallee and Steven Loft

The prize, Canada’s largest for contemporary art, represents a C$100,000 windfall for the winner

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

The response in Ottawa “shows people crave experiencing visual arts in person”, director Sasha Suda says

Ontario museums have been shut for months because of surge in Covid cases this April

A major Old Master show will keep a contemporary perspective with new commissions and acquisitions

Angela Cassie and Tania Lafrenière join the institution as part of its first strategic plan

National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime

The museum plans to acquire many of the works in its survey devoted to Indigenous artists

Tahitian still lifes of sunflowers are surrogate portraits of his Yellow House friend

The Ontario native is just the fourth woman to take the post, and the youngest in more than a century

A forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada aims to show how the painter explored his own identity through his subjects