Contemporary Arts
To the surprise of no one, the Vancouver-based, David Zwirner-represented artist Stan Douglas has won Canada's top photography prize, the Scotiabank Photography Award, for 2013. The win comes with a $50,000 prize and a solo show at...
The Brooklyn-based Canadian artist Mathieu Lefevre died in October 2011 when he was struck and killed by a truck while riding his bike, leaving behind a studio full of work, some of which has since been included in group shows in New York...
David R. Harper is having a busy year. Hot off the heels of his first Sobey Award nomination, the young Chicago-based artist’s solo exhibition Entre le Chien et le Loupe continues to tour with a recent stop at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, in addition...
The Canadian art world is putting the Alberta College of Art + Design on trial, this week, after it recently fired one of its most-respected and longest-standing instructors, Gordon Ferguson, over his perceived role in a student’s demonstration of performance...
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall describes his work as being “cinematographic,” creating staged images with an incredible sense of narrative that transcends the boundaries of static image-making. Currently on show at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, “JEFF...
As Frieze New York pulls the art world legions across the bridge to Randall's Island, a coterie of Canadians will be huddling together on Manhattan’s Canal Street, tomorrow evening, feting a one-night exhibition that celebrates their own private Idaho. “...
A visit to Montreal’s intimate and effecting Papier13, last week, provided this art-fair-weary critic a necessary shot to the arm. In its sixth year, Papier sets an example for how the art market can be good for art, not just the market, and...
"My Facebook people!" Marina Abramovic raises her hands to awkwardly embrace the camera in an earnest appeal to the faceless community of social media. Looking to solidify the significance of her "legacy" - about which she may be the only person concerned -...
Frieze New York returns to Randall's Island for its second edition May 10 to 13. In addition to works on display from 180 of the world's contemporary arts galleries, you'll find an outdoor sculpture park and even a speakeasy-style bar hidden in the...
Canada Researches Holocaust-era Art: Canada has begun its term as the leader of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance — a coalition of 31 countries — by launching a $190,000 initiative to research the provenance of Holocaust-era...
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