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- U.S. art dealer opens contemporary gallery in Rome
- The biggest commercial art dealer in the U.S. has opened a modern art gallery in Rome, a city better known for its classical and Renaissance art.
- Istanbul gets new 500-seat opera house
- A historic Istanbul building, finished in 1927 as an opera house but relegated to use as a movie theatre until 2005, has reopened as a 500-seat concert hall after a two-year renovation.
- 4 A.J. Casson prints missing from Ontario archives
- An audit of the Archives of Ontario has discovered that hundreds of valuable documents and items, including four prints by artist A.J. Casson, have gone missing.
- Shock artist puts spotlight on Indian waste workers with excrement exhibit
- Provocative Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is once again courting controversy with a new installation that displays 21 massive blocks created from human excrement.
- Hirst donates pickled cow, cigarette butt art pieces to Tate
- Britain's Tate Gallery revealed on Thursday that British artist Damien Hirst has donated works featuring his pickled cows, dead flies, cigarette butts and seashells to the venue's permanent collection.
- Halifax curator moves to Calgary's Glenbow Museum
- Jeffrey Spalding, the former director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, has taken over at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
- German museum closes terracotta warriors exhibit after figures revealed as fakes
- A German museum has reportedly closed an exhibit featuring several of China's terracotta warriors, following the revelation that the clay figures on display are fakes.
- Huge dinosaur centrepiece of new ROM galleries
- A 24-metre barosaurus nicknamed Gordo leans out over a Toronto street as the centrepiece of the Royal Ontario Museum's newly renovated dinosaur galleries.
- $2M endowment to create chair in indigenous art at Ottawa gallery
- The Ottawa-based National Gallery has received a $2-million grant from the Vancouver-based Audain Foundation to endow a curator of indigenous art.
- New Zealander to be 1st artist to draw in space
- New Zealand artist Makoure Scott hopes to create work while weightless on the inaugural flight of Virgin Galactic, the first privately run venture into space.
- Sin City mayor, FBI to team up for mob museum
- Sin City is moving ahead with plans for a museum dedicated to its mobster past — with the approval and assistance of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- UN launches human rights cartoon exhibit
- The UN has launched a special exhibit of political cartoons in Rome to raise awareness of human rights issues, war, hunger and religious extremism.
- N.S. artist's Vatican paintings to help save Halifax church
- Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall plans to create a series of paintings about the Vatican and hopes to give half the proceeds from their sale to save a Halifax church.
- New York museums move to confirm ownership of Picasso paintings
- Two New York museums have taken legal steps to protect their ownership of two Picasso paintings at the core of a claim made by a German-Jewish scholar who says they belong to his family, who were persecuted during Nazi rule.
- Morrisseau family feuds over artist's body
- Plans for the cremation of Ojibwa painter Norval Morrisseau, who died Dec. 4, have been put on hold as family members and a close friend of the artist squabble over his body.
- New funding for Beaverbrook Art Gallery
- Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery received a $125,000 award from the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts on Thursday as part of a heritage stabilization program to help the gallery stage future exhibits.
- Nazi-looted work found in London to be returned to Montreal
- A Canadian foundation set up to recover Nazi-looted works once owned by Montreal art dealer Max Stern has recovered a 17th-century Dutch painting.