Canada
A brush with… Stan Douglas
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Agnes Martin to Samuel Beckett
Chinese Museum in Vancouver aims to rewrite Canada’s racist history
The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art
Turner Prize and Sobey Award winners and Judy Chicago highlight Toronto’s second biennial
Whereas the inaugural biennial focused on the city’s lakefront shoreline, this pandemic-delayed sophomore edition is organised along Toronto’s creeks and ravines
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts settles dispute with its former director
Nathalie Bondil, who was fired in 2020, was seeking $1.5m in moral and punitive damages from the museum’s board
Artist Johnny Bandura’s mural of residential school victims becomes tool for teaching Canada’s colonial legacy
Through partnerships with universities and a forthcoming showcase at the Parliament of British Columbia, Bandura’s 215 portraits are educating Canadians young and old
‘A master of fire and light’: Quebec-born abstractionist Rita Letendre has died aged 93
The much-honoured artist created bold public works in Toronto and had a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2017
Sculptor and hereditary Haida chief James Hart wins one of Canada's top art prizes
Hart said receiving the C$100,000 ($80,000) Audain Prize is ‘part of the larger process of reconciliation’
Canadian museum closes Indigenous galleries to begin ‘the process of decolonisation’
The Royal British Columbia Museum will overhaul an entire floor of exhibits devoted to Indigenous and First Nations groups
Polar bear killed and skinned by Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is honoured in her work for Sobey Art Award
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
Artist curator claims Art Toronto owes them back wages after unfair dismissal
When the fair went online-only during the pandemic last year, a planned section dedicated to queer and non-binary artists was cancelled
A year-long public art project takes over all four corners of Toronto as it reawakens from pandemic closures
Art and architecture merge on Vancouver’s towers—but is the cultural outreach more than illusion?
Two public projects launching this week highlight the Canadian city’s booming developments, in which only a select few can afford to live
Picasso Blue Period blockbuster to finally open in Toronto early October
The show, delayed because of Covid, focuses on three works painted by the “insanely ambitious” artist during a low point in his early career
Klee Wyck, a historic home used by Emily Carr in West Vancouver, to be demolished
The property, bequeathed to the district by a physician friend of the artist for use as an arts centre, has been neglected for decades
‘What they could have become’: artist Johnny Bandura creates mural imagining the lost futures of 215 Kamloops children
The Qayqayt First Nation artist has created vivid portraits of the residential school victims whose lives were cut short
Joe Average unveils new mural honouring the fight against Aids in Vancouver
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
Dealer admits to marketing fraudulent Indigenous wood carvings to Canadian museums and galleries
Works by a non-Indigenous artist known as Harvey John were sold at museum gift shops and galleries as authentic Haida artworks
Rembrandt loan show will finally launch in Ottawa as National Gallery of Canada reopens to the public
Ontario museums have been shut for months because of surge in Covid cases this April
'I want the UN to come and see what has happened here': Canadian Indian residential school survivor speaks out for victims in his art
Vancouver-based Cowichan/Syilx artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun creates new work in memory of dead Indigenous children
Works by women artists reach new heights in Canadian auction
Two canvases by Carr blew past their estimate to become among the highest auction prices paid for her work, while a painting by 92-year-old Rita Letendre set a record for the artist
Vancouver residents launch petition to block Boy Holding a Shark public art ‘monstrosity’
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
Sea junk sculptures draw crowds in Canada for World Oceans Day
After popping up in Vancouver, an installation of figures made from trash travels to Toronto and Quebec City
Shortlist announced for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s largest art prize
Although nominations were open to artists of all ages for the first time, the finalists are all around the same generation
Haida artist Tamara Bell installs 215 shoes on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential school
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
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect known as the ‘Queen of Green’, has died, aged 99
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
Rembrandt’s work joins with art by Black and Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Canada this spring
A major Old Master show will keep a contemporary perspective with new commissions and acquisitions
Arts Umbrella, Canada’s largest culture educator, opens new $27m home in Vancouver
The new education centre on Granville Island with arts, music, film and dance studios, will serve 24,000 student annually
Toronto’s Contact Photography Festival expands its takeover of public spaces
Month-long event to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a series of installations across the city
Work for the Weekend: Vancouver unveils sound piece inspired by 1980s working-class pop anthem
The public art work by the local artist Brady Cranfield has been installed in the Vancouver Art Gallery's newly pedestrianised south plaza
Stitching together a monument to sick kids, one bead at a time
Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams’s testament to the bravery of children facing difficult illnesses has been created using pieces that record every procedure, test or jab of a needle they undergo