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Lakota artist and filmmaker Dana Claxton awarded Audain Prize
Artist Dana Claxton, who has received The Audain Prize, poses for a photograph in her studio in Vancouver, B.C. on September 22, 2023.
lives lived
Artist Ken Kirkby tried to get the essence and soul of Canada’s Arctic onto canvas
Ken Kirkby
books
Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich to write book based on art-fraud documentary
This year's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival will mark a return to in-person screenings in Toronto after pivoting entirely online the previous two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the first slate of Special Presentations there are three world premieres, including Toronto filmmaker Barry Avrich's "The Talented Mr. Rosenberg" about Toronto con man Albert Rosenberg. Avrich is shown in this September 9, 2019 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
art & architecture
Photojournalist Louie Palu lends a human perspective to Canadian hard-rock mining in new exhibit
photo courtesy Louie Palu/The Image Centre
review
Liz Magor’s new MOCA exhibit is a provocative reflection of contemporary life
Kate Taylor
opinion
With costs climbing, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s plans for its new home must change
Marsha Lederman
architecture
Berlin’s museums bring beauty from the rubble
Alex Bozikovic.
fall cultural preview
Five must-see gallery and museum exhibits coming up this fall
art & architecture
Over three years after it was stolen, a van Gogh painting is recovered but with some damage
An handout picture released by Dutch art detective Arthur Brand shows a portrait of him posing with the painting title "Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring", painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1884, at his home in Amsterdam on September 11, 2023. Brand has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in a daring midnight heist during the coronavirus lockdown three-and-a-half years ago. Brand, dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Art World" for tracing a series of high-profile lost artworks, told AFP that confirming the painting was the stolen Van Gogh was "one of the greatest moments of my life." (Photo by Handout / ARTHUR BRAND / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /Arthur Brand " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/ARTHUR BRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
style
In Rome, Fendi celebrates sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro
Arnaldo Pomodoro (above with the Fendi Peekaboo bag he designed for his exhibition in Rome) thinks as much about the form of a piece as what lies just beneath its surface.
opinion
Architect Raymond Moriyama built bold, big ideas that we must now save from small thinking
Alex Bozikovic
weekends with
Jay Onrait: The Miles Davis of late-night sports broadcasting?
Jay Onrait
art & architecture
Ian Dejardin steps down as McMichael gallery’s executive director; curator Sarah Milroy to assume role
Ian A.C. Dejardin, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, is photographed beside Tom Thomson’s Byng Inlet-Georgian Bay 1914-15 at the gallery on Aug 23, 2023. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
art & architecture
McMichael gallery’s Ian Dejardin leaves Canada behind, but not his love of Tom Thomson
Ian A.C. Dejardin, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, is photographed at the gallery on Aug 23, 2023. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
advisor news
Why more high-net-worth individuals are investing in art
Ongoing auction session. auctioneer and buyers in frame
book review
Sean Michaels’s Do You Remember Being Born? could be forebear of a whole new genre of writing
Author Sean Michaels was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book Us Conductors.
film
TIFF pauses relationship with Ontario Place redeveloper Therme Group
People use a walking path near Ontario Place's Cinesphere, in Toronto, on Thursday, September 29, 2022. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
world
British Museum head of trustees says some of the 2,000 stolen items have been recovered, admits to lack of records
FILE - Visitors walk outside the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, Friday, June 26, 2015. The British Museum said a member of staff has been dismissed after items were found to be missing, stolen or damaged. The museum said Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023 it has also ordered an independent review or security and ordered kickstart a ‘'vigorous program to recover the missing items.'' (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
world
British Museum director quits over stolen items
FILE PHOTO: A sign for the British Museum which houses the Parthenon sculptures is seen in London, Britain, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
review
Sarindar Dhaliwal weaves words and colour together to tell stories of migration, colonialism and growing up
Kate Taylor