- Pope builds friendships with artists
- Pope Benedict XVI met in Rome with more than 250 artists from around the world to foster dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the arts.
- Tom Thomson winter scene set for auction
- A striking, snow-covered forest scene by Tom Thomson bearing intriguing inscriptions on the back of the canvas is set for sale in Toronto on Tuesday as Canada's fall auction season gets underway.
- King Tut casts magic in Toronto
- King Tutankhamun has returned to Toronto. A new exhibit of artifacts related to the Egyptian boy king went on display Friday at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
- Montreal to see terracotta warriors
- China's terracotta warriors are coming to Montreal in 2011. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal will receive a rare visit of 14 of the warriors — life-sized replicas of soldiers of the Qin dynasty — it announced on Thursday.
- Installation artist Jeanne-Claude dies
- Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates and other large "wrapping" projects with her husband, Christo, has died at 74.
- Early Canadian stamps auction nets $3.2M US
- A New York stamp collector auctioned parts of his collection in New York on Thursday, including a Canadian-issued stamp that is one of the world's rarest.
- Museum, striking workers to resume talks
- The two sides in a labour dispute at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum are heading back to the bargaining table Friday for the first time since early October.
- Warhol, Sendak illustrations on auction
- Illustrations for The Little Red Hen, the children's story created by Andy Warhol, go under the hammer Dec. 9 in New York.
- Sydney Opera House refurbished to Utzon's plan
- The newly completed refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House more closely resembles architect Jorn Utzon's original vision for the venue.
- Munch lithograph stolen in Oslo
- A rare lithograph is the latest valuable art work by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch stolen in Oslo.
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