Fine arts

Editorial cartoonists celebrate press freedom

Check out the winners of the 2013 cartoon competition

by macleans.ca - Thursday, May 2, 2013
Welcome to the Dachshund UN

36 wiener dogs on a diplomatic mission

by Emily Senger - Friday, March 1, 2013
Don McCullin: Years of living dangerously

The photojournalist’s gripping images of conflict come to the National Gallery of Canada

by Mike Doherty - Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Art in its place

I hope you’ll indulge a story from home.
Insomniac on Christmas Eve during a…

by Paul Wells - Thursday, December 27, 2012
Looking for CanCon at Miami Art Basel?

Then put down that cocktail and visit the satellite fairs that surround sunny South Beach’s annual art party

by Daniel Barna - Thursday, December 6, 2012
Canadian art now, at the National Gallery

Paul Wells on a new show that deserves discussion and debate

by Paul Wells - Friday, November 30, 2012
Michael Snow plays his Trump card

At 83, the innovative Canadian art icon is fine-tuning his latest project: a 65-storey light show

by John Geddes - Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The Group of Seven come home

McMichael celebrates the return of Canada’s most celebrated landscape painters

by Sara Angel - Thursday, November 1, 2012
Sarah Lazarovic didn’t shop for one year

Instead, the illustrator, writer and filmmaker painted pictures of all the goods she coveted

by Julia De Laurentiis Johnson - Thursday, August 9, 2012
Happy 500th birthday, Raphael cherubs

Exhibit touts heavenly tots from painting to T-shirts to toilet paper

by Paul Ruban - Monday, July 30, 2012
Picasso doing the laundry and hanging the drapes

A new painting exhibit by Toronto artist Eric Rosser imagines a more laid-back Pablo

by Brian Bethune - Thursday, June 7, 2012
Vanishing acts: Hudson Bay and Tom Thomson

Crimes of nature ‘People of a Feather’ and ‘West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson’

by Brian D. Johnson - Friday, April 20, 2012
Leonardo: 2012′s art star

He’s been dead for nearly 500 years, but the artist keeps making headlines

by Jessica Allen - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
From Woodstock and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse to art museum

Two multimedia artists, Joshua White and Gary Panter, are lighting up Detroit

by Simona Rabinovitch - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Mexico’s underwater art museum sinks sculptures beneath the sea

Atlantis meets Rodin’s garden in blue Caribbean waters of the Mayan Riviera

by Gabriela Perdomo - Tuesday, March 6, 2012
$80 million for ‘The Scream’? That’s a bargain.

The price for Munch’s most famous work isn’t expected to be anywhere near record-setting

by Jessica Allen - Friday, February 24, 2012
Private art in the public eye

Scrap Metal joins a small clutch of art venues where cash is not strapped

by Jason McBride - Wednesday, December 14, 2011
David Altmejd comes full circle

The Montreal artist on working with giant figures in Connecticut and creating a ‘timeless’ sculpture for the Montreal Museum of Fine Art

by Simona Rabinovitch - Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The fine art of foreign espionage

British artist was hired to depict the ambiguous world of the Secret Intelligence Service

by Michael Petrou - Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Talk about living colour: ‘I Send You This Cadmium Red’

A multimedia stage work brings meditations on colour by John Berger and John Christie vividly to life

by Brian D. Johnson - Monday, October 17, 2011