- Winners, losers emerge in native art deal
- When Vancouver was granted the Olympics, the organizing committee struck a formal partnership with four First Nations who claim the lands where the Games are to be held and spoke of showcasing native culture to the world. But some native people say the promise of jobs, training, and business opportunities for aboriginals is proving empty.
- Aussie PM admits frustration over nephew's art works
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he defends his nephew's controversial art projects as a right to free speech but "fundamentally" disagrees with Vanh Thanh Rudd's opinions.
- 1961 pics of Marilyn offered to public
- Photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe at the apartment of poet Carl Sandburg in 1961, just nine months before her death, will soon be offered to the public as limited edition prints.
- Jasper Johns Flag painting up for auction
- One of Jasper Johns's iconic Flag paintings, from the collection of the late author Michael Crichton, is being put on the auction block.
- Reopened Art Gallery of Alberta draws 12,000
- Almost 12,000 people streamed through the doors of the Art Gallery of Alberta in the first four days of its reopening last weekend.
- Artist tackles Detroit's housing freeze
- A Michigan man has turned one of Detroit's 20,000 derelict houses into a work of art to demonstrate the reality of the housing freeze in the United States.
- Toronto photographer wins new award
- Toronto freelance photographer Adrien Veczan has won the inaugural Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.
- Alberta arts groups brace for funding cuts
- Alberta's Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett is warning provincial art groups they'll have to do more with less in the coming year.
- $109M Giacometti sets new record
- A life-sized sculpture of a man by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold at auction in London Wednesday for $109.4 million, a record for any work of art.
- Nazi-looted Klimt sells for $45.4M
- Gustav Klimt's Kirche in Cassone (Church in Cassone) went for $45.4 million in an auction in London on Wednesday, and part of the proceeds are to go to a Montreal man who is heir to the Nazi-looted work.
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