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- RoboCop statue coming to Detroit
- Despite Mayor Dave Bing's polite rejections, a statue of Robocop is coming to Detroit.
- Body painting event nixed in Nanaimo
- B.C. government liquor control board officials have barred a body painting contest from the Nanaimo conference centre over concerns about erotic content.
- AUDIO: Exhibit links Juno winners with Canadian art
- CBC's Matt Galloway interviews Rich Terfry, aka Buck 65, about a new exhibit that matched Juno Award-winning musicians with inspiring Canadian artworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario's collection.
- Pacino to play Matisse in Deepa Mehta film
- Veteran U.S. actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in a forthcoming film about the French artist, with the project to be directed by Canada's Deepa Mehta.
- Arts council to oversee funding
- The Nova Scotia government is bringing back an independent body to decide funding for artists in the province.
- Camera surgically removed from art prof's head
- A U.S. arts professor who had a camera implanted in the back of his head has been forced to remove it after his body began to reject the supports that held it in place.
- Disfigured Afghan portrait wins World Press prize
- A South African photographer's portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism's most coveted prizes.
- Toronto photographer wins Hanson award
- A freelance photographer from Toronto whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and the National Post has been named the winner of the second annual Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.
- Mapplethorpe's photos secured by L.A. museums
- A vast trove of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos, drawings and collages is heading to Los Angeles, after two West Coast museums jointly acquired the provocative New York artist's archives.
- Picasso's portrait of muse fetches $40M at auction
- A heated competition between bidders ended with Pablo Picasso's La Lecture soaring past expectations and fetching more than $40 million in London.