The Sobey Art Award longlist for 2026 is out. Thirty contemporary artists from across Canada are in the running for this important prize. You can check them out here:
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Contemporary Moving Images - Check out new works by ten international moving image artists in Repeat as Necessary, an online exhibition hosted by Deluge Contemporary Art in Victoria, British Columbia.
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So good to see that fibre is being valued as a contemporary art medium and not just as a craft or as “women’s art.” This post introduces three artists who employ tapestry as a contemporary medium.
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What is art history today? The topics covered at an art history conference in 2025 are telling. open.substack.com/pub/makingan...
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Congratulations to KIAC, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. They have won the 2025 Lacey Prize. The Lacey Prize is awarded every two years to a small arts organization that supports contemporary art in small Canadian communities.
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Paris has a new contemporary art venue right across the street from the Louvre. Check it out.
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The roster for the Venice Biennale exhibition, In Minor Keys, has been announced and five Canadian artists are included - Manuel Mathieu, Bonnie Devine, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Rajni Perera, and Marigold Santos. Congratulations!
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Make Art, Not War - Canada's former Cold War nuclear bunker, The Diefenbunker, is a museum and art gallery in Ottawa. Artists can now apply for the 2026 artist residency - a timely opportunity to make a statement on our current Cold War.
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A Provence pilgrimage…
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Who benefits from an artist residency?
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Congratulations to Graeme Patterson. Patterson has won the 2025 Theodore Prize, an award honouring an exceptional artist from Atlantic Canada. Patterson creates truly imaginative and strange worlds with his installation work that includes sculpture and video.
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Winter snow and wishes for the season.
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Contemporary art and robots - some thoughts on the latest meme.
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Making art in Scotland - here is a wonderful residency opportunity open to Canadian artists.
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Celebrating Canada’s northern artists.
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Canada's history is up for sale. Twenty-seven paintings owned by the defunct Hudson's Bay Company are going on sale tomorrow. A great loss if these works leave the country. See Art Canada Institute for the stories behind the works.
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Artists Peter Doig and Marina Abramović were awarded the Praemium Imperiale last month. What is this prestigious award and who does it benefit? makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/the-gift?r...
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Good news for Canadian artists. The new government budget includes plans to create an Artist's Resale Right so artists will benefit when their work is sold in secondary markets.
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Congratulations to Tania Willard, the 2025 winner of the Sobey Art Award! Willard, who is from British Columbia, was chosen from a short list of six artists each representing a region of Canada.
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From van Gogh to Lázló Tóth - A portrait of the artist.
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Artists Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller have left the limelight of the big cities and set up an amazing exhibition of their interactive multi-media works deep in the middle of British Columbia. Definitely worth the journey!
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Antimatter [Media Art] is celebrating its 28th year. This year’s international selection of media art and experimental films can be viewed in-person at Deluge Gallery in Victoria or on-line.
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Artmaking in the Rocky Mountains. The Banff Centre offers a number of residency opportunities for visual and performing artists from Canada and around the world. The deadline for applications is October 29.
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Five young Canadian artists have been named as the 2025 winners of the EQ Emerging Digital Artist Award. Congratulations!
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A road trip in September brought me to Edmonton where I viewed five exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Alberta. open.substack.com/pub/makingan...
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Congratulations to Brian Jungen who has won the 2025 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts, a $100,000 award given to an outstanding artist from British Columbia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfyf...
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Some short notes on art I found on my road trip of British Columbia and Alberta.
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A visit to two commercial galleries in Vancouver. makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/summer-exh...
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Sad News. Galleries West, another Canadian art publication has died. Galleries West has reported on contemporary art in Western Canada since 2002. It started as a hardcopy magazine and eventually moved on-line. The last digital issue was published today. www.gallerieswest.ca/from-the-edi...
