- Trafalgar plinth to hold boy, rooster
- A giant blue rooster and a sculpture of a boy on a rocking horse have been chosen to stand atop the empty fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
- MoMA acquires controversial Fire in My Belly video
- A controversial video artwork that was removed from a Smithsonian exhibit last year is now on display at New York's Musuem of Modern Art.
- Canadian buys Marilyn Monroe rights
- A Canadian dealmaker has bought the rights to the image of Marilyn Monroe, who died of an overdose of barbiturates in 1962 at the age of 36.
- Vancouver mulls downtown 'cultural hub'
- Vancouver City Council is considering creating a new 'cultural hub' in the downtown core, on the same site where the city's art gallery wants to relocate.
- Chinese activist-artist's studio razed
- China's Ai Weiwei's newly built Shanghai art studio was torn down this week — a demolition the noted Chinese contemporary artist ties to his political activism.
- B.C. missing women art exhibit called off
- The renowned Museum of Anthropology at UBC said it is cancelling an exhibit featuring huge paintings of missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside out of 'serious concerns.'
- Obama 'Hope' artist settles copyright claim with AP
- The Associated Press and the artist who created the Barack Obama "Hope" image have agreed to settle their copyright infringement claims.
- Brisbane galleries, libraries prepare for flooding
- Art galleries and libraries in Brisbane, Australia, are shifting their collections to upper levels as floodwaters that struck rural areas move toward the city.
- Hopper's shot-up Mao print fetches $300K
- A brilliant blue and green Andy Warhol print of Mao Zedong, pierced by two bullet holes courtesy of former owner Dennis Hopper, soared to a sales price of more than $300,000 US at auction in New York.
- AUDIO: Brian Eno on his multimedia artwork
- Brian Eno, artist and former member of Roxy Music, talks to Q's Jian Ghomeshi about his multimedia artwork.
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