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RETURN OF THE FIGURE

The figure is in the foreground of the art world again— from an increase in commissioned portraits to cheeky young painters like New York’s Cecily Brown whose randy rabbit images were featured in the...

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FACE TIME: Portraiture Vies for Attention in the Digital Age

You might think that staple of art history, the genteel portrait, would be under threat in this quick-fix age as the so-called thumb generation posts countless snapshots of friends and family on social...

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ROYAL NO MORE: Five years after the Royal Art Lodge’s demise, former members...

Six students from the University of Manitoba’s fine arts program – Jonathan Pylypchuk, Adrian Williams, Drue Langlois, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier – founded the Royal Art Lodge...

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WAR AND PEACE: Military art marches to fore as Canada marks anniversaries

Adrian Stimson’s installation "Sandbox" is chilling. The Saskatoon-based artist, a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta, has created an ordinary-looking children’s sandbox.

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TALKIN’ ’BOUT AN EVOLUTION: Change a constant as The Banff Centre incubates a...

“We are at a moment of re-evaluation of culture,” says Beloufa, whose show, Counting on People, opens Nov. 8 at the centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery.

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WAS IT ART OR PROPAGANDA?: New book looks at a public art project that helped...

It was one of the largest public art projects in Canadian history. Between 1942 and 1963, a series of more than 100 silkscreen prints by 54 of the country’s top artists – including members of the Group...

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SECRET HANDSHAKE: Douglas Coupland and the Sampson-Matthews prints

You might doubt that Douglas Coupland – The. Ultimate. Arbiter. Of. Cultural. Cool. – would be interested in an almost-forgotten series of fusty landscape prints that once populated Canadian schools,...

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SAN MIGUEL: Western Canada's connection to Mexico

A popular tourist attraction in San Miguel de Allende, a colonial city in central Mexico, is an unfinished mural by one of the country’s most celebrated artists, David Alfaro Siqueiros.

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National Gallery of Canada to show Saskatoon collector’s Pre-Raphaelite drawings

Back in Saskatoon, Lanigan soon began acquiring Pre-Raphaelite art, mainly drawings. His collection is so impressive the National Gallery of Canada is showing 100 of the works, the bulk of the...

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ANCIENT ARTS: Remarkable Asian Treasures At The Art Gallery Of Greater...

Going behind the scenes in museums and galleries is always fascinating, especially for those with pack-rat tendencies and historical interests. Even small collections are worth many millions of...

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A SHIFTING LINE: the art of text

The neoclassical rotunda in the Vancouver Art Gallery is nothing if not stately, and it’s here, as part of "MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture," that viewers can find the exhibition’s boldest...

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15 years in the art world: BUILDING BOOM

It’s an odd irony: grand new art galleries are opening across the west just as the digital age ushers in unprecedented access to art from the comfort of our sofas.

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Downward Doig, Anyone?

Maybe yoga classes can help build audiences for art.

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National Gallery Celebrates Confederation

Works by Vancouver’s Jeff Wall and Jin-me Yoon and 69 other photo-based artists will kick off nine months of exhibitions marking the 150th anniversary of Confederation at the revamped National Gallery...

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