News
Steve McQueen’s Latest Film Gets World Premiere at TIFF
The award-winning UK artist and filmmaker to debut Widows in Toronto in September
News in Brief: A New Canadian Heritage Minister and More
Plus Inuit art shifts, art you can eat, a new Art Toronto list, and addressing mental health through art
News in Brief: Canada at the Liverpool Biennial and More
Funding issues for the Vancouver Art Gallery expansion and more damage to public art (and its reputation) are also in the news this week
How Do the Latest Federal Culture Funds Actually Break Down?
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly recently announced $125 million in new culture funding and export initiatives. Here’s how it breaks down, and how some art businesses are affected
News in Brief: A Car Turned Carbon-Age Obelisk in Alberta, and More
The week has brought new public art, new funding for the arts disbursed in Nova Scotia and new curators at the Art Gallery of Alberta
Regional and Indigenous Arts Key to New BC Arts Council Plan
New strategic plan lays out broad strokes for new $15 million in funding promised by provincial government
After SLĀV, Some Next Steps
The Montreal Jazz Festival has cancelled SLĀV. What needs to be eliminated next is systemic bias in the arts
News in Brief: A $7-Million Art Export Push, and More
Freshly revealed Frieze list has a couple of Canadian exhibitors—news that dovetails with the federal government’s announcement of a revitalized art-export program
Gillian Siddall Named President of Emily Carr University
During her term, Siddall hopes to prioritize decolonization and transdisciplinary research
Chagall Returns to National Gallery, but Questions Remain
“I’m really glad to have it back…but this whole thing was really mismanaged,” says one person who fought the painting’s deaccessioning