Making & Meaning
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Conversation pieces on the making and meaning of contemporary art by independent Canadian researcher and art historian, Marie Leduc.
Annie Leibovitz and IKEA
The Value of an Artist Residency
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January 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Congratulations to Graeme Patterson. Patterson has won the 2025 Theodore Prize, an award honouring an exceptional artist from Atlantic Canada. Patterson creates truly imaginative and strange worlds with his installation work that includes sculpture and video.
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Strange Birds Beaverbrook Art Gallery 2024
YouTube video by graemecpatterson
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December 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Congratulations to Graeme Patterson. Patterson has won the 2025 Theodore Prize, an award honouring an exceptional artist from Atlantic Canada. Patterson creates truly imaginative and strange worlds with his installation work that includes sculpture and video.
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Painting Snow
Dreaming of Peace and Beauty
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December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Contemporary art and robots - some thoughts on the latest meme.
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Regular Animals?
Robots and Contemporary Art, Again.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Contemporary art and robots - some thoughts on the latest meme.
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Making art in Scotland - here is a wonderful residency opportunity open to Canadian artists.
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Canadian Artists in Residence | Glenfiddich
| Canadian Artists in Residence
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December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Making art in Scotland - here is a wonderful residency opportunity open to Canadian artists.
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Celebrating Canada’s northern artists.
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Being Seen
The Yukon Prize for Visual Arts
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November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Celebrating Canada’s northern artists.
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Canada's history is up for sale. Twenty-seven paintings owned by the defunct Hudson's Bay Company are going on sale tomorrow. A great loss if these works leave the country. See Art Canada Institute for the stories behind the works.
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Heffel | Canadas National Fine Art Auction House - Live Art Auction
Heffel fine art live auction. Buy artworks by: Walter Joseph (W.J.) Phillips, Adam Sherriff Scott, George Franklin Arbuckle, Charles Fraser Comfort, Frank Hans (Franz) Johnston
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November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Canada's history is up for sale. Twenty-seven paintings owned by the defunct Hudson's Bay Company are going on sale tomorrow. A great loss if these works leave the country. See Art Canada Institute for the stories behind the works.
www.aci-iac.ca/newsletters/
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Artists Peter Doig and Marina Abramović were awarded the Praemium Imperiale last month. What is this prestigious award and who does it benefit? makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/the-gift?r...
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The Gift
The Praemium Imperiale Award
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Artists Peter Doig and Marina Abramović were awarded the Praemium Imperiale last month. What is this prestigious award and who does it benefit? makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/the-gift?r...
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Good news for Canadian artists. The new government budget includes plans to create an Artist's Resale Right so artists will benefit when their work is sold in secondary markets.
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Canadian artists to get slice of resale money for their work through copyright change
Artist’s Resale Right allows visual artists to benefit from future sales of their work, bringing Canada in line with Britain, Australia, France
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November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Good news for Canadian artists. The new government budget includes plans to create an Artist's Resale Right so artists will benefit when their work is sold in secondary markets.
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Congratulations to Tania Willard, the 2025 winner of the Sobey Art Award! Willard, who is from British Columbia, was chosen from a short list of six artists each representing a region of Canada.
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Sobey Art Award – Artists
Congratulations to Tania Willard, Winner of the 2025 Sobey Art Award!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Congratulations to Tania Willard, the 2025 winner of the Sobey Art Award! Willard, who is from British Columbia, was chosen from a short list of six artists each representing a region of Canada.
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From van Gogh to Lázló Tóth - A portrait of the artist.
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The Brutalist
A Portrait of the Modern (and Contemporary) Artist
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October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
From van Gogh to Lázló Tóth - A portrait of the artist.
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Artists Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller have left the limelight of the big cities and set up an amazing exhibition of their interactive multi-media works deep in the middle of British Columbia. Definitely worth the journey!
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A Voice, A Song, A Dream
Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse
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October 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Artists Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller have left the limelight of the big cities and set up an amazing exhibition of their interactive multi-media works deep in the middle of British Columbia. Definitely worth the journey!
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Antimatter [Media Art] is celebrating its 28th year. This year’s international selection of media art and experimental films can be viewed in-person at Deluge Gallery in Victoria or on-line.
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Antimatter Media Art
Annual festival of international media art and experimental cinema screenings, performances and installations in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Antimatter [Media Art] is celebrating its 28th year. This year’s international selection of media art and experimental films can be viewed in-person at Deluge Gallery in Victoria or on-line.
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Artmaking in the Rocky Mountains. The Banff Centre offers a number of residency opportunities for visual and performing artists from Canada and around the world. The deadline for applications is October 29.
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Leighton Artist Studios
Ten remarkable studio spaces for professional artists in all disciplines. *26/27 Residencies now open for application - Deadline October 29, 2025.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Artmaking in the Rocky Mountains. The Banff Centre offers a number of residency opportunities for visual and performing artists from Canada and around the world. The deadline for applications is October 29.
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Five young Canadian artists have been named as the 2025 winners of the EQ Emerging Digital Artist Award. Congratulations!
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2025 Recipients – Emerging Digital Artists Award
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October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Five young Canadian artists have been named as the 2025 winners of the EQ Emerging Digital Artist Award. Congratulations!
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A road trip in September brought me to Edmonton where I viewed five exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Alberta. open.substack.com/pub/makingan...
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Fires Burning
Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta
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October 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A road trip in September brought me to Edmonton where I viewed five exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Alberta. open.substack.com/pub/makingan...
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Congratulations to Brian Jungen who has won the 2025 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts, a $100,000 award given to an outstanding artist from British Columbia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfyf...
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Audain Prize 2025 - Brian Jungen
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September 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Congratulations to Brian Jungen who has won the 2025 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts, a $100,000 award given to an outstanding artist from British Columbia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfyf...
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Some short notes on art I found on my road trip of British Columbia and Alberta.
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The Weird and Wonderful
Contemporary Art on the Road
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September 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Some short notes on art I found on my road trip of British Columbia and Alberta.
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Contemporary art and robots.
Contemporary art and robots.
Art Animated
Robots and Contemporary Art
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September 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Contemporary art and robots.
Contemporary art and robots.
A visit to two commercial galleries in Vancouver. makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/summer-exh...
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Summer Exhibitions - Part III
Catriona Jeffries Gallery and Monte Clark Gallery
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August 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A visit to two commercial galleries in Vancouver. makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/summer-exh...
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Sad News. Galleries West, another Canadian art publication has died. Galleries West has reported on contemporary art in Western Canada since 2002. It started as a hardcopy magazine and eventually moved on-line. The last digital issue was published today. www.gallerieswest.ca/from-the-edi...
From the Editor - August 19, 2025 issue
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August 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Sad News. Galleries West, another Canadian art publication has died. Galleries West has reported on contemporary art in Western Canada since 2002. It started as a hardcopy magazine and eventually moved on-line. The last digital issue was published today. www.gallerieswest.ca/from-the-edi...
More summer exhibitions. The Polygon Art Gallery in North Vancouver is dedicated to photo-based contemporary art.
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Summer Exhibitions – Part II
The Polygon Gallery
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August 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
More summer exhibitions. The Polygon Art Gallery in North Vancouver is dedicated to photo-based contemporary art.
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There’s a new venue for contemporary art exhibitions in Vancouver. A purpose-built contemporary art museum, The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, will open its doors September 20.
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The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum
In fall 2025 Simon Fraser University will open a new, purpose-built art museum on
Burnaby Mountain. The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
There’s a new venue for contemporary art exhibitions in Vancouver. A purpose-built contemporary art museum, The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, will open its doors September 20.
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Looking forward to these.
Five new art books to look out for this autumn, including publications on US monuments and Vermeer close-ups – Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead
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August 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Looking forward to these.
Very sweet!
The first mass-produced book to deviate from a rectilinear format, at least in the United States, is thought to be this beautiful 1863 edition of Red Riding Hood, published by Boston-based publisher Louis Prang. Leaf through its person-shaped pages here: https://buff.ly/2xngjiv
August 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Very sweet!