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Toronto Biennial Announces Artists
In fall 2019, the first Toronto Biennial of Art will spread itself along the city’s oft-neglected waterfront, with hopes to fight transient curatorial whims of the global biennial form
An Art Toronto Sales Report
The Art Gallery of Ontario and TD Bank have been very public about their acquisitions at the fair, and dealers have disclosed some of their successes as well
News in Brief: A Vancouver Museum Readies for the Big One
The Museum of Anthropology preps for earthquakes. Plus: Remai Modern tops its first-year attendance targets, significant fall auction items are revealed, and more.
Artist-Run Centres Leave Calgary Arts Commons
After more than 20 years of programming the +15 Galleries spaces at Arts Commons, five artist-run centres say a lack of transparency and respect has pushed them away
News in Brief: Vancouver Galleries at Risk and More
Plus: Canadian art and artists at FIAC, some big new shows and public art updates
Gender Inequality Is Still Real in Canada’s Arts Scene
New culture study confirms women’s incomes are lower than men’s, and that women’s artistic works receive significantly less public visibility and recognition
The World’s Biggest Indigenous Screen-Content Festival Grows
imagineNATIVE, now in its 19th year and based in Toronto, adds an expanded industry program and a large-scale digital/interactive showcase this year
News in Brief: $1 Million to the Inuit Art Centre and More
Also: announcing the EDAA award winner, remembering Pierre Théberge, and tracking multiple job shifts for curators and critics
Of #MeToo, Mental Health and the Arts
Famed Austrian artist Otto Muehl went to jail for sexual offences against minors. His art-world bios rarely acknowledge that—or the deeply traumatic impacts. Now, an arts festival tries to shed some light
A New Royal Alberta Museum Opens to the Public
It’s double the size of the old site—and questions the harmful “triumphalist story of Prairie settlement” told by older incarnations of the museum