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Strong sales shine on Art Basel Miami Beach


december 5, 2011

MIAMI — Tough economic times around the world did not stop European and Latin American collectors from snapping up works at Art Basel Miami Beach, the biggest art fair of its kind in the United States.

The 10th edition of the event in Miami Beach wrapped up Sunday on a sunny note.

"I heard estimates

Nuns find new home for early Carr painting

december 5, 2011

Emily Carr’s sisters had some issues with her art. Too modern. But there was one painting of hers that big sister Elizabeth Carr loved. Wild Lilies, likely painted in the early 1890s when Emily was at art school in San Francisco, was a great favourite of hers.

“Elizabeth absolutely loved this painting and

Glasgow sculptor Martin Boyce wins Turner Prize


december 5, 2011

Sculptor Martin Boyce, whose works include artificial trees and a leaning litter bin, has won Britain’s Turner Prize.

Glasgow-based Boyce accepted the modern art award at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northern U.K., on Monday, with photographer Mario

Carole Freeman finds her muse on Facebook


december 2, 2011

There are emerging artists and then there’s Carole Freeman who, at 57, likes to call herself a “re-emerging artist.”

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Freeman graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1980, intending to forge a career as a figurative painter. “Then circumstances took me

Rembrandt rediscovered after 390 years

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december 2, 2011

Art experts have reclassified a painting of an old man as a Rembrandt after an elaborate scientific investigation revealed a portrait of the artist himself hidden

Rain closes AGO’s Jack Chambers exhibit


december 1, 2011

The Art Gallery of Ontario hopes on Friday to be able to restore 40 paintings by the late Jack Chambers to the walls of a second-floor exhibition space after excessive humidity in the room forced the Toronto institution to remove the pictures on Tuesday.

Dehumidifiers were installed that night after Toronto received

Toronto’s Power Plant gallery gets first woman director


november 29, 2011

For the first time in its 34-year history, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto is appointing a woman as its director.

The gallery announced Monday that Gaëtane Verna, currently director of the Musée d’art de Joliette, in Joliette

Miami, City of Sun And Beaches, Is Now About Art


november 29, 2011

MIAMI — This city has worn many tags through the decades: It has been a place to honeymoon and retire, to buy cocaine and dodge bullets, to sample Little Havana and party all night. But art was never high on the to-do list.

Then, in 2002,

Visual artists vie for cut of resale profits

november 29, 2011

In 59 countries, artists receive a percentage from the sale of their artworks, each and every time they're sold — whether the sale takes place via auction house or commercial gallery. But Canada is not among those countries.

Now, as the fall auction season draws to a close, the national group representing Canadian visual and media artists is calling for the federal

More auction success for Lemieux at Sotheby's
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