Iraqi culture ministry announces new national museum in Baghdad as Mosul restoration plan is extended to historic churches

The architect Hernán Ferruchi was visiting the city with friends when he was hit by a truck while cycling on 31 October 2017

The German-born Canadian captured a view of the city that has since been lost, but he did not receive major recognition until late in life

A government grant for works of importance helps to block departure of the painting from the country

The work was unveiled as the name of a Conservative politician behind the Komagata Maru incident was removed from the federal building on which it is painted

The festival will realise 25 new murals, including a 20-storey work by Shepard Fairey

A Canadian court recently overturned a ruling on the "national importance" of the French Impressionist's work, sold at Heffel Auction House in 2016

As British Columbia clamps down on foreign real estate investment, Chinese collectors are investing in contemporary Canadian art with "no expense spared”

A project at the inaugural National Veterans Art Museum Triennial in Chicago aims to create artistic equity out of conflict

Union boss calls museum's recent offer "an insult"

The local philanthropic Chan family has reinvigorated the long-awaited expansion with an “unprecedented” gift

Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem's installation stands as an example of cultural exchange as diplomatic tensions break out between Canada and Saudi Arabia

A project at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto challenges the public to help restore a Baghdad art college’s collection

The artist’s retrospective opens at the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, the largest private owner of his work

The writer and artist unveils an ecological work inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and a 3D-printed national portrait of Canada

Almost 1,000 guests attended the opening night to support the show, organised by Iran's leading artist 

The Toronto museum becomes the second largest holder of the photographer’s work in the world with the purchase of 522 prints

Artist Parviz Tanavoli hopes Lions of Iran exhibition will still go ahead in Tehran—and travel abroad

The collection of 197 works is largely by Vancouver-based artists like Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Damien Moppet, Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer, but also includes an important piece by Doris Salcedo

The 1968 battle scene was withdrawn last month from Christie’s Dubai sale, but its fate remains in question

Miriam Aroeste says she was surprised to have her art mixed up with the US President’s politics

Artists hope to restage exhibition first seen in bombed-out shopping centre