ART NEWS Brazil, Canada, Denmark
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Visitor figures 2014: the world goes dotty over Yayoi Kusama
Taiwan’s National Palace Museum clinches top spot in our attendance survey, but Japanese artist’s retrospectives are a phenomenon in South America and Asia
Published online: 02 April 2015
Lina Bo Bardi’s glass and concrete gem in S?o Paulo to be restored to original condition
After being bailed out by Banco Itaú last year, the Museu de Arte de S?o Paulo is ready to return to its former glory in October
Published online: 05 March 2015
Biennials move to a Latin beat after decades of controversy
Surge in new and revived South American exhibitions reflects global demand for contemporary art
Published online: 05 December 2014
Art Rio is on the rise
But the fair still has a ways to go before it is on the level of Brazil’s main event, SP-Arte
Published online: 17 September 2014
S?o Paulo biennial separates itself from Israeli sponsorship
Foundation agrees to “disassociate” itself from consulate funding after protest letter from artists and curators
Published online: 02 September 2014
S?o Paulo ready for big-budget biennial
Emotionally engaging their audience—with a little help from YouTube—is the name of the curators’ game
Published online: 02 September 2014
Politics not just part of Bienal’s past
This year’s edition aims to prompt discussions about the social and economic problems facing Brazil
Published online: 02 September 2014
How the slave trade shaped the Baroque
As Catholicism spread across the colonies, slaves and freedmen created a uniquely Brazilian style
Published online: 02 September 2014
Street art versus Fifa
In the run-up to the World Cup, protest graffiti filled Brazil’s walls with potent expressions of discontent
Published online: 02 September 2014
Artist opens art and technology school in Rio favela
The Escola do Vidigal is the latest step in the Vik Muniz’s plans to overhaul the Brazilian education system
Published online: 01 September 2014
Museums 1-0 galleries
Football fans flocked to see art—but not to buy it—during the World Cup
Published online: 01 September 2014
Off the beaten track
Brazil’s cultural offering is far richer—and more widespread—than many realise. Here are some of the country’s hidden gems
Published online: 01 September 2014
In S?o Paulo for the Bienal??Make time for these…
Ten exhibitions on view in venues across the city this autumn
Published online: 01 September 2014
Bank saves Brazil’s biggest museum
Debt-ridden S?o Paulo institution forced to make major changes at the top
Published online: 01 September 2014
Neo-Classical falls foul of Brazil’s love of Baroque
Country seeks to preserve Baroque and Modern buildings but still fails to fund restoration of its disappearing 19th-century heritage
Published online: 01 September 2014
What’s hot in Brazil
From one artist’s funk doppelganger to an art school in a park, S?o Paulo-based writer and curator Daniela Castro picks the ones to watch
Published online: 01 September 2014
News in brief from Brazil
From construction delays at Inhotim to curators' attack on ‘vain’ work in Niemeyer space
Published online: 01 September 2014
Reappraisal increases respect for Brazil’s 19th-century art
Experts are reassessing what was previously seen—and shunned—as a conservative copy of French style
Published online: 01 September 2014
Big, bold and banking on tomorrow
The South American giant has staked its place in the economic super-league. All it needs to do now is modify its tax laws, clamp down on corruption and oversee two global sports fiestas. No problem?
Published online: 01 September 2014
An interview with the curators of the 31st Bienal de S?o Paulo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDGYWtL1mdQ
Published online: 01 September 2014
The ones who slipped through the net
An insiders’ selection of artists less well-known in the West
Published online: 01 September 2014
Brazil’s leading galleries
S?o Paulo is home to the vast majority of major galleries
Published online: 01 September 2014
Taxes: what the state takes when you buy art
Taxation is the tail that wags the dog in Brazil
Published online: 01 September 2014
Beyond the borders
The museums that proclaimed Brazil’s art and artists to the world
Published online: 01 September 2014
Women lead the way
Unlike their Western counterparts, female Brazilian artists are at the forefront of the market
Published online: 01 September 2014
Art worth $4.5m found hidden in Brazilian shipping container
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are investigating whether the works are part of a money laundering scheme
Published online: 01 July 2014
There’s more to Brazil than football, says Marta Suplicy, the nation’s minister of culture
Making the arts accessible to all—and showing there’s life beyond carnival and sport—is a priority
Published online: 05 June 2014
Portuguese art for Rio carnival in 2016
Joana Vasconcelos is in talks with one of the samba schools
Published online: 10 May 2014
Brazil’s taxes keep foreign galleries cautious
The international names coming to S?o Paulo have to weigh risk versus reward
Published online: 02 April 2014
Dalí heads to Brazil and looks set to break records
Rio de Janeiro host expects huge exhibition attendance during football's World Cup
Published online: 27 March 2014
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Canada
Montreal film festival has full slate of art documentaries
Fifa fare includes a look into the life of art market star Marc Quinn, Hitler’s trove of looted art and Egyptian artists involved in the Arab Spring
Published online: 24 March 2015
Canada’s National Gallery reopens after Ottawa shootings
A return to normal business after gunman’s rampage put the capital on lockdown
Published online: 23 October 2014
Brother, can you spare some screen time?
Artist works with Canada’s homeless population for Montreal Biennial project
Published online: 20 October 2014
Aga Khan’s gift to Canada
Riches of Islamic art and science to be unveiled in Toronto’s new cultural complex
Published online: 10 September 2014
Warrior comes out of his shell
Simon Starling’s sculpture to show its mussels
Published online: 10 June 2014
Biennale de Montréal hopes for a rebirth
After years of troubles with funding and organisation, the Canadian art event is looking forward to its next edition this autumn
Published online: 18 May 2014
Emily Carr sets auction record for a Canadian woman artist
The British Columbia-born painter’s work makes $3m in Toronto
Published online: 02 December 2013
Celebrated Canadian artist Alex Colville dies, aged 92
Toronto-born traditionalist, in both politics and painting, focused on everyday life in Canada
Published online: 24 July 2013
‘Orphaned’ Cézanne watercolour surfaces in Ottawa
Pressure could mount to identify the owner of a work separated from French dealer’s collection
Published online: 17 June 2013
Canadian government funds research on Holocaust-era art
As the country starts its term leading an international alliance, six museums receive $190,000 for provenance project
Published online: 29 April 2013
The finest art films on earth
We pick the best from Fifa, the world’s biggest festival of its kind, taking place in Montreal this month
Published online: 11 March 2013
Stuttgart museum returns looted medieval masterpiece
Jewish art dealer who fled to Canada was forced to sell art during Nazi Era
Published online: 05 March 2013
Graffiti: is it art or vandalism?
Toronto sets up official panel and the wrangling starts over what to preserve
Published online: 07 November 2012
Not run of the mill
Published online: 13 March 2012
Lemieux is Canada’s latest “$2-million-dollar man”
Published online: 26 November 2011
Artists in court over copyright payments
Published online: 20 June 2011
Montréal biennale takes a chance
Published online: 29 April 2011
Sales Professional
Published online: 26 January 2011
Ontario museums team up
Published online: 07 December 2010
Colville a magic man at Canadian sales
Published online: 26 November 2010
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Denmark
Director of National Gallery of Denmark denounces Copenhagen attacks
Swedish artist Lars Vilks intended target of gunman
Published online: 16 February 2015
Olafur Eliasson's riverbed transforms Louisiana
Rock-strewn, site-specific work unveiled in Danish museum
Published online: 21 August 2014
Enigmatic Eliasson, mystery man
https://youtu.be/YYBHo01CoZQ
Published online: 18 August 2014
Philip Guston's about-face
https://youtu.be/tRPPELEK24M
Published online: 10 July 2014
Altarpiece by Nolde stolen from Danish church
The painting was probably taken during the day, when the church is open to the public but often empty
Published online: 12 March 2014
National Gallery of Denmark has Nazi-looted works, scholar says
Two paintings by Nolde and one by Matisse were confiscated during the Second World War as “degenerate” art
Published online: 18 December 2013
Row threatens Asger Jorn legacy
Accusations fly as partners fall out and artist-in-residence quits
Published online: 11 December 2013
Eliasson’s room with a rainbow view brings record visitors to Aros
The roof-top installation helped make the museum the second most visited in Denmark
Published online: 28 August 2013
Danish museum acquires Fourth Plinth rocking horse
Elmgreen & Dragset’s sculpture, commissioned for London's Trafalgar Square, is now a gift to Arken
Published online: 25 July 2013
Danish artist found guilty of copyright infringement over pornographic collage
Kristian von Hornsleth says the work is an artistic response to a bad review
Published online: 27 March 2013