Hadani Ditmars
Could Israel’s shuttered embassy in Dublin become a gallery for Palestinian art?
Fresh off a pop-up show in Ireland, the director of the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US hopes the former Israeli Embassy could become a permanent European outpost
Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plan for new, $444m Herzog and de Meuron-designed building
The institution ended its partnership with the Swiss firm, begun nearly a decade ago, as it reassesses its plans
Artists protest at Toronto Arts Foundation gala over funding from Israeli real estate company’s charitable foundation
The protests are part of a broader campaign pressuring Canadian arts organisations to cut ties with the Azrieli Foundation
Vancouver’s floating artist residency finds safe harbour in new location
The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, based in the refurbished former home and studio of Carole Itter and Al Neil, is now moored near Vancouver’s Maritime Museum
Vancouver Art Gallery expands Asian art programme with $1.1m gift
The museum’s renamed Centre for Global Asias seeks to “recognise the many Asias that exist, within the geography of Asia itself and in the global diaspora”
Project to put art on the moon seeks Indigenous music recordings
The Lunar Codex has partnered with the estate of Canadian Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau to collect contemporary and traditional music that will be sent into space in 2025
Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams wins Canada’s top art prize
The Montréal-based artist, known for his intricate sculptural beadwork, received the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2024
Leila Zelli foregrounds Iranian women’s protest movement at the Toronto Biennial
The artist’s videos and installations reinterpret acts of resistance staged in the streets and on social media
Sameer Farooq’s library of flatbreads at the Toronto Biennial serves as a map of the city’s diasporic communities
The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community ovens where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020
Art Toronto offers moments of connection, catharsis and commerce for Canada's art world
The country’s biggest art fair, with more than 100 exhibitors, is both a centre of commercial activity and a sprawling diorama of a national aesthetic
An exhibition at the pyramids of Giza invites artists and visitors to become modern-day archaeologists
In its fourth iteration, Forever is Now continues its tradition of installing contemporary works next to ancient sites
Early Emily Carr watercolour acquired by Canada’s Audain Art Museum
The museum already owns a subsequent, oil-on-canvas work depicting the same subject; both versions of “War Canoes, Alert Bay” will now be displayed together
New Niki de Saint Phalle documentary chronicles her personal struggles and aesthetic triumphs
Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Niki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan
Avoiding the mistakes of the past: symbolic sculptures by Indigenous artists unveiled at site of historic Canadian battlefield
The permanent sculptures by Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart and Wendat Nation artist Ludovic Boney were unveiled in Québec City’s Cap Diamant on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore wins the Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards
The annual prize, which honours an artist based in British Columbia, comes with C$100,000 cash
Alleged leader of ‘biggest art fraud in the world’ sentenced in Canada
Prosecutors described David Voss as the leader of a forgery ring that created thousands of fake works by Norval Morrisseau
‘This is a farce’: heritage activists react as historic minaret in Iraq covered in white plaster
The Zumurrud Khatun Mosque and Mausoleum have undergone a heavy-handed restoration—and there is a risk of further damage to come
Cost of Vancouver Art Gallery's new building balloons by 50%, reaching $444m
The museum’s director claimed the sharp increase was due to a precipitous rise in construction costs in recent years, though a prominent collector called this explanation “preposterous”
Alex Janvier, visionary First Nations artist based in Canada, has died, aged 89
A prolific painter helped open doors for contemporary artists at a time when Indigenous art was often confined to ethnographic museums
Artists Christi Belcourt, Joe Average and bill bissett receive one of Canada’s highest honours
The artists—and pop star Avril Lavigne—were among 83 new appointees to the Order of Canada
The Indigenous artist brightly patching up a Toronto expressway
Nico Williams has created a series of colourful interventions along an elevated highway that cuts through the city centre
After meeting with Pope Francis, Canada’s Justin Trudeau reiterates call for return of Indigenous artefacts from Vatican Museums
Last spring Pope Francis said “this is going on, with Canada”, but since there has been little movement on repatriation
Wreck of the ship Ernest Shackleton died on found off the coast of Canada
The famed explorer died aboard the Quest in 1922; the ship sank in the Labrador Sea 40 years later
Artist who created Queen Elizabeth II portrait on Canadian coins sues dealer over stolen and damaged works
Susanna Blunt alleges the dealer Benjamin Lumb promised to compensate her for a stolen piece and knocked over several works in a “domino effect”
Fire guts historic Toronto church, destroying its Group of Seven murals
A restoration campaign for St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto is already underway, but its historic art is lost forever
Artists withdraw from Toronto photography festival due to its ties to Israeli weapons manufacturer
The Contact Photography Festival’s main sponsor, Scotiabank, has a large stake in Elbit Systems, which makes armoured vehicles, drones and other weapons
Armenian heritage threatened by Jerusalem hotel plan
Deal puts 12th-century monastery, Ottoman-era houses and Roman ruins at risk
Art Gallery of Ontario closes as more than 400 workers go on strike
The strike comes after a breakdown in negotiations between the workers’ union and museum administrators, and as the institution pursues a C$100m expansion
Antoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87
His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic
Eight artists and curators receive Canada’s Governor General’s Award
This year’s winners of the prestigious Canadian honour include the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona and Saskatchewan-based curator Michelle Jacques