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Controversial Ontario Place redevelopment and mega-spa could cost taxpayers billions

A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto's modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable”

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

Rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 sells for 5,000 times original price

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

New public art partnership will link New York and Toronto

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

Toronto will celebrate Henry Moore Day on 13 November

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

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

Cree artist Kent Monkman commissioned to create large outdoor work for new Toronto art trail

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

Toronto Biennial spotlights 36 artists—from international stars to emerging Canadian talents—at venues across the city

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

Second lawsuit to halt development of mega-spa on Toronto Modernist landscape is dismissed

The fate of the landmarked Ontario Science Centre also hangs in the balance of the redevelopment dispute over Ontario Place

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June Clark: the Toronto-based US artist exploring the American flag and its many meanings

The New York-born artist, who has lived in Canada for more than half a century, explains how she bypassed sexism in the 1970s to teach herself photography, and why she will always be connected to the US

Legal challenge to preserve Toronto's Ontario Place rejected as mega-spa project moves forward

In addition, it was discovered that the provincial government agreed to pay almost C$1m to make its controversial case for moving the Ontario Science Centre, which closed permanently Friday due to structural decay

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

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

Art Gallery of Ontario to reopen after month-long strike as workers and leaders reach contract agreement

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

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

Redevelopment of Modernist complex on Toronto waterfront alarms residents and preservationists

The provincial government passed legislation to push through a controversial, publicly funded development of Ontario Place

Meeting of Canadian and Italian prime ministers at Art Gallery of Ontario cancelled due to protest

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

Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum reveals details of $97m renovation project

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

Second curator of Indigenous art departs the Art Gallery of Ontario amid ongoing scandal

Taqralik Partridge, an associate curator of Indigenous art since 2022, has stepped down while the Toronto institution is still reeling from the sudden ouster of Wanda Nanibush

Toronto construction crew unearths ancient Indigenous burial ground

Work on a water line near the city’s Greektown section has turned up human remains believed to be at least 700 years old

Paintings by Alex Colville and Emily Carr top the bill at Heffel’s big spring auctions in Toronto

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

Art Gallery of Ontario reveals designs for new $73m modern and contemporary art wing

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

A new exhibition in Toronto sheds light on the Leonard Cohen few knew

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

Queen Elizabeth II portrait makes $853,000 in Toronto—a record for a Warhol print at auction

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

The late Denyse Thomasos, a star of the latest Whitney Biennial, lives again in Toronto

The artist’s enormous abstract compositions are the focus of a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Toronto’s revered Power Plant art centre in peril after board members’ mass resignation

The resignations mark a major escalation of a long-running power struggle between the gallery’s leadership and its landlord, the Harbourfront Centre

Toronto culture festival admits to ‘internalising colonial systems’ after mishandling Indigenous-led art project

The Luminato Festival, a fixture of Toronto’s arts scene since 2007, called off the Um of Water project days before its debut