The museum’s board chair also cited the need for “urgent repairs” to its building in downtown Toronto

The Carr painting was one of the star attractions at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s marquee autumn sale in Toronto, alongside works by Tom Thomson, Marcelle Ferron, Kenojuak Ashevak and Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart

The forthcoming Lassonde Art Trail is teaming up with both the Public Art Fund and York University’s L.L. Odette Sculptor in Residence programme

The municipal observance comes 50 years after the city’s leading art museum launched an art centre devoted to Moore

The 1912 painting is believed to have been gifted by the artist to friends who later moved to the Hamptons, where a discerning dealer nabbed it decades later for a bargain

The Lassonde Art Trail will launch along the city’s waterfront in 2026

The biennial’s third edition, organised by co-curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López under the theme “Precarious Joys”, spans artist-run spaces, major museums and the airport

Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others

Wanda Nanibush and the artist Curtis Santiago are the recipients of this year’s Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Awards

From an initial field of 30 nominees, a shortlist of just six artists is now competing for the prize

Works by Jean Paul Riopelle, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and other titans of Canadian art history contributed to the evening’s total take of C$22.6m

Thirty artists are nominated for the Sobey Art Award this year, with the total purse for the award growing to C$465,000

The Toronto museum had been closed since 26 March, when members of a union representing more than 400 employees went on strike

Pro-Palestine activists rallied outside the museum in protest of Justin Trudeau’s response to the Israel-Hamas war

The institution's “gift to the city, the province and beyond”, OpenROM will upgrade its public space, improve accessibility and add 6,000 sq. ft of galleries

The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total

The 2023 Sobey Art Award went to the Calgary-based artist, who is known for her wide-ranging, multidisciplinary approach that incorporates and reimagines Inuk traditions

Three million of the coins, affectionately known as “toonies”, will go into circulation to mark the artist’s centennial

The winner of the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2023 will be announced in November

NGC's new director, formerly chief curator of Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec, enters the organisation at a turbulent time in its management

The Canadian auction house also saw strong results from works by members of the Group of Seven and a soaring Warhol print

The complex machine, developed in collaboration with Factum Arte, processes thousands of drawings from the Cape Dorset collection

The pioneering abstract painter’s legacy will be front and centre in Montréal, Ottawa, Paris and elsewhere

Construction of the 40,000 sq. ft space, dubbed the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery, is expected to begin in early 2024, with an opening scheduled in 2027

From an exhibition celebrating Canadian women artists to a major centennial retrospective of Jean Paul Riopelle, the museum has ambitious plans for 2023

The witty Canadian polymath caused a sensation with his 1967 underground film "Wavelength" and enjoyed public dispute over his city sculptures

More than a decade after a previous attempt fizzled out, a new institution is on the prowl for prime real estate in Ottawa

“Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows” chronicles the late, multi-hyphenate artist’s life and many creative careers

Healthy bidding at Canadian auction house Heffel also achieved strong results for painter Lawren Harris

In an internal memo to staff, the museum's interim director wrote that the sudden changes were made "to better align the gallery’s leadership team with the organisation’s new strategic plan"