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There has always been a hint of the grotesque in Penny’s work but now he embraces that direction, probing yet deeper in a career-long investigation of how to represent the human figure, For several years, Canadian sculptor Evan Penny has considered the Greek myth of Marsyas, the satyr who challenged Apollo to a musical contest and lost. His punishment was to be [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff VISUAL ARTS The curators of the third Toronto Biennial of Art would not be so presumptuous as to impose a theme on their 11venue group show. [...]

Touching themes of the fragile and the transitory emerge, even as the international showcase still struggles to represent its city, The curators of the third Toronto Biennial of Art would not be so presumptuous as to impose a theme on their 11-venue group show. Instead, they say they have listened [...]

Sonia Boyce visits Canada with her award-winning exhibition featuring an unrehearsed improvisation by four singers who had never previously met, When London artist Sonia Boyce was busy preparing a complex multichannel video work for the 2022 Venice Biennale mid-pandemic, she tired of people asking how it felt to be the [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff When London artist Sonia Boyce was busy preparing a complex multichannel video work for the 2022 Venice Biennale mid-pandemic, she tired of people asking how it [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff Indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore is the winner of 2024 Audain Prize, the Audain Foundation announced Tuesday. The $100,000 prize, one of the richest arts awards in [...]

The $100,000 prize, one of the richest arts awards in the country, is given annually to a senior British Columbia artist, Indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore is the winner of 2024 Audain Prize, the Audain Foundation announced Tuesday. The $100,000 prize, one of the richest arts awards in the country, is given [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, JOHANNA SCHNELLER, KATE TAYLOR, BRAD WHEELER The Globe and Mail's film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year's Toronto [...]

The Globe and Mail’s film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which wraps up this Sunday, The Globe and Mail’s film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year’s https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/tiff-toronto-international-film-festival/, which wraps up this Sunday. Best Accidental Trends Every [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff VISUAL ARTS Twenty years ago, New York artist Tishan Hsu was examining his son's Lego, noting the grid of plastic buttons. He took a section and [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff If life gives you lemons, make a virtue of necessity and sew a silk purse from a sow's ear. Both COVID and climate considerations have called [...]

Strong fall lineup includes three Toronto debuts, for Tishan Hsu, Alex Da Corte and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Twenty years ago, New York artist Tishan Hsu was examining his son’s Lego, noting the grid of plastic buttons. He took a section and tried making a rough mould, fashioning [...]

Fall will be a busy season for Canada’s contemporary art galleries, If life gives you lemons, make a virtue of necessity and sew a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Both COVID and climate considerations have called into question the wisdom [...]

Like her character in Seven Days, actress Vishka Asayesh faced tough choices in pursuing her profession, Even with her head scarf carefully in place, the popular Iranian actress Vishka Asayesh would be repeatedly recognized by fans on the streets of Tehran. Visiting the Toronto International Film [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff Even with her head scarf carefully in place, the popular Iranian actress Vishka Asayesh would be repeatedly recognized by fans on the streets of Tehran. Visiting [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff A 17th-century Dutch painting of a young woman has fetched US$1.4-million at a Maine auction, a shockingly high price considering it was only estimated to sell [...]

According to a label on the back, the painting was exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1970 as a work by Rembrandt, A 17th-century Dutch painting of a young woman has fetched US$1.4-million at a Maine auction, a shockingly high price considering it was only estimated to sell for US$10,000 to US$15,000 [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff The print and drawing centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto houses more than 100,000 items in a two-storey, climate-controlled vault. With a bit [...]

Thanks to decades of incentives to private donors, curators with too little space for storage and exhibits must now renovate and grow, or sell and diversify, The print and drawing centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto houses more than 100,000 items in a two-storey, climate-controlled vault. With a bit of reorganizing of the [...]

With 278 titles to choose from, The Globe and Mail’s arts writers have suggestions for some of the most anticipated films this year, The strikes are over, the virtual screenings are behind us and the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/tiff/ is back in full form for its 49th annual edition. But with 278 titles to choose from, [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff Canada is a bit player in the world's biggest art restitution story - and that's good news. Four Canadian museums hold a total of 11 objects [...]

With only 11 objects in four museums, Canada is a minor player in a major international restitution drama, Canada is a bit player in the world’s biggest https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/art/ restitution story – and that’s good news. Four Canadian museums hold a total of 11 objects from the Kingdom of [...]

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection showcases many works that have not been seen outside of the province, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont., makes a surprising claim for its current show of Quebec Impressionism, calling it the first of its kind in English Canada. Really? [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff VISUAL ARTS The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto owns one major canvas by the celebrated American abstractionist Mark Rothko. Staff recently pulled No. 1, White [...]

Moments in Modernism at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the permanent collection at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto owns one major canvas by the celebrated American abstractionist Mark Rothko. Staff recently pulled No. 1, White and Red out of storage to [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff The American artist Martine Gutierrez has a reputation for deconstructing identities and constructing new ones. A trans woman of Mayan heritage on her father's side, Gutierrez [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff VISUAL ARTS The current exhibition of Nordic art at the renovated and renamed Buffalo AKG Art Museum includes the giant blade of a wind turbine. Danish [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff VISUAL ARTS The exhibition Radical Stitch, a collection of contemporary Indigenous beadwork, is filled with ironic takes on the medium. For example, the Kiowa artist Teri [...]

The show of contemporary Indigenous beadwork at the National Gallery of Canada finds the cheek and humour in the medium, The exhibition Radical Stitch, a collection of contemporary Indigenous beadwork, is filled with ironic takes on the medium. For example, the Kiowa artist Teri Greeves, from Sante Fe, N.M., contributes [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff On Italy's effervescent postwar cultural scene, it was Federico Fellini who defined the new role of the film director. 'Fellini is important because he was probably [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff A forgotten industrial pocket in the northwest corner of Toronto is hardly the place to go looking for glamour and celebrity. And yet there, in a [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff Canadian Opera Company general director Perryn Leech has left the organization only three years into his tenure, with former board chair David Ferguson stepping into the [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; Staff There is probably one in your neighbourhood, too: that handsome old church, a once-thriving spiritual centre and notable local building, where today the dwindling congregation debates [...]