Skip to main content
NewslettersWatchlist

Latest

politics
McGill University painting attributed to First Nations artist raises concern of Morrisseau estate, experts
A fake painting by Norval Morrisseau hanging at the Visible Storage Gallery in the McLennan Library at Mcgill University in Montreal on Friday, January 26th, 2024.
politics
First Nations gallery that lent painting attributed to Norval Morrisseau to Ontario legislature now of opinion painting is ‘fake’
"Salmon Life Giving Spawn" a painting attributed to famous Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau is photographed on Jan 22, 2024. The painting on exhibit at the Ontario Legislature, is believed to have characteristics that are in keeping with artwork seized by the Ontario Provincial Police as part of an art fraud investigation. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Morning Update: ArriveCan official denies allegations over destroyed e-mails
Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, the commissioner of the inquiry into foreign interference, says her work is underway and the inquiry will have more to say about its process on Nov. 10. The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill is shown from Gatineau, Que., on Thursday, March 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
arts
Art Gallery of Ontario’s associate curator of Indigenous art, Taqralik Partridge, departs
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - 2017/07/22: AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) sign in the building exterior. Tourists bus parked outside the cultural institution and everyday lifestyle in Toronto city. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)
politics
OPP investigating artwork attributed to Norval Morrisseau that was removed from Legislative Assembly of Ontario
"Salmon Life Giving Spawn" a painting attributed to famous Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau is photographed on Jan 22, 2024. The painting on exhibit at the Ontario Legislature, is believed to have characteristics that are in keeping with artwork seized by the Ontario Provincial Police as part of an art fraud investigation. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
politics
Legislative Assembly of Ontario removes artwork attributed to Norval Morrisseau over concerns raised about authenticity
"Salmon Life Giving Spawn" a painting attributed to famous Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau is photographed on Jan 22, 2024. The painting on exhibit at the Ontario Legislature, is believed to have characteristics that are in keeping with artwork seized by the Ontario Provincial Police as part of an art fraud investigation. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
politics
Authenticity of Norval Morrisseau painting being investigated by National Capital Commission, OPP
A worker installs Canadian Aboriginal artist Norval Morrisseau's painting "Androgyny" in the ballroom at Rideau Hall Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 in Ottawa. Measuring 3.66m high and 6.1m wide, "Androgyny" replaces "Charlottetown Revisited", a work created by the Jean Paul Lemieux, which has been on display since 2006. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
world
Two artworks returned to heirs of Holocaust victim while another is tied up in court
FILE _ This combo of images provided by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, shows three artworks by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, from left, watercolor and pencil on paper artwork, dated 1916 and titled "Russian War Prisoner" (Art Institute of Chicago); a pencil on paper drawing, dated 1917, titled "Portrait of a Man" (Carnegie Museum of Art), and a watercolor and pencil on paper artwork, dated 1911 and titled "Girl With Black Hair" (Allen Memorial Art Museum). On Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in New York, the estate of Holocaust victim Fritz Grünbaum accepted "Portrait of a Man,” surrendered by the Carnegie Museum of Art and "Girl with Black Hair,” surrendered by Oberlin College, which prosecutors have valued collectively at around $2.5 million. The third, “Russian War Prisoner,” remains at the Art Institute of Chicago as that museum fights the seizure in court. (Manhattan District Attorney's Office via AP, File)
world
Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2-billion on art tells jurors Sotheby’s cheated him
FILE - President of the football club AS Monaco, Dmitry Rybolovlev, attends a French league two soccer match between Monaco and Caen at the Louis II stadium on May 4, 2013, in Monaco. Rybolovlev who accused Sotheby’s of teaming up with a Swiss art dealer to cheat him of tens of millions of dollars became tearful in court Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 as he testified that he considered the dealer to be like family before discovering he'd been defrauded by an “art market that needs to be more transparent.” (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
arts
Manitoba government and art gallery remove honours for alleged Nazi supporter
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew walks to the legislative assembly at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. The Manitoba government and a prominent art gallery are removing honours for Ferdinand Eckhardt over concerns he was a Nazi supporter in the 1930s.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim
art & architecture
These five visual arts exhibits are the highlights of 2024
Look Ahead in art for 2024, Kate Taylor column. Judith Leyster. Self-Portrait, c.1630. Oil on canvas, Unframed: 74.6 × 65.1 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1949.6.1. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Making her Mark: A history of women artists in Europe 1400-1800 at the AGO.
travel
A beautifully chaotic journey in Brazil that excites the senses
Porto de Galinhas Brazil
obituary
Artist Helen Lucas’s canvases blossomed as she embraced feminism
Helen 1981 - 2 copy.jpg. OB-LUCAS Helen Lucas obit Handout
books
Fake J.E.H. Macdonald oil sketch donated to Vancouver gallery an imitation of Tom Thomson’s work
Bryan Wall in his studio in the Historic Tremont downtown Collingwood. Credit: Diane Wall
film review
Wim Wenders’ 3D art doc Anselm is an eerie wonder
Anselm film stills by Director Wim Wenders
british columbia
Western Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery admits Group of Seven oil sketches are fake
Sketch after The Tangled Garden, n.d. oil on paperboard Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery
arts
New York’s Metropolitan Museum will return stolen ancient sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand
This December 2005 photo shows a 7th century sculpture titled "Head of Buddha" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The sculpture is one of 16 pieces of artwork that the museum said it will return to Cambodia and Thailand that federal prosecutors say were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (Metropolitan Museum of Art via AP)
opinion
At long last, we finally know the truth about the J.E.H. MacDonald sketches
Marsha Lederman
canada
Ontario man in Norval Morrisseau art fraud case sentenced to five years
A sentencing hearing for one of several people charged in what's been called a historic case of art fraud is underway in a Thunder Bay, Ont., courtroom. A reporter walks past 'Androgyny' by Norval Morrisseau, right, and 'Tweaker' by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun during a media tour of the Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present at the National Gallery of Canada's contemporary art galleries, in Ottawa, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
art & architecture
Famed oil sketches by Group of Seven founder are fakes, Vancouver Art Gallery admits
Sketch after The Tangled Garden, n.d. oil on paperboard Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery
Prev
123
Next

141 - 160 of 200 articles