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News Roundup: Krista Belle Stewart and Bruce Grenville Win VIVA Awards
Also: an Alberta artist is in the running for the Luxembourg Prize, ECUAD cancels classes for Global Climate Strike, Ai Weiwei’s art comes to Winnipeg for the first time, Darling Foundry takes steps to buy its Montreal building, and more
Maya Wilson-Sanchez Awarded Fall Canadian Art Editorial Residency
The Toronto-based writer and curator will work in our offices for the 11-week Fall 2019 mentorship
Vancouver’s Black History Highlighted in Deanna Bowen’s New Public Artwork
The massive wall piece, up for a year, continues Bowen’s focus on Black-, Asian- and South Asian–owned nightclubs in the city in the 1950s
Vancouver Artist Stan Douglas Wins $100,000 Audain Prize
Prize aims to increase public profile of British Columbia artists
Social 2019 Art Auction Picks
Now in its 24th year, Canadian Art’s Social is one of the largest live and silent contemporary art auctions in Canada, and is an essential source of funding for Canadian Art. Here, four members of the Art Advisory Committee—Aryen Hoekstra, Luis Jacob, Claire Christie and Stuart Keeler—discuss some of their favourite works
Winnipeg Artist Wins the 2019 Emerging Digital Artists Award
Alyssa Bornn is an artist, filmmaker and organizer whose winning work repurposes an old video-subtitling machine to unexpected ends
News Roundup: Indigenous and Chinese Canadian Archives Join UNESCO Memory of the World Register
The Notman photo archives are also joining. Plus: a new director at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, some Canadians on the Sydney Biennale list, and expansions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Rarely Seen Gordon Matta-Clark Archive Goes On View in Montreal
Films, drawings and papers donated to CCA by the Matta-Clark estate in 2011 are finally coming out of the box
How Hurricane Dorian Impacted Arts and Culture in Nova Scotia
The Nova Scotia Museum, which runs 28 sites across the province, was hardest hit
Archival Interview Reveals Why Robert Frank Treasured Cape Breton
“I came here not so much to change my profession but to change my personal life,” said the late photographer, “to get another outlook, to turn around a corner”