The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre just launched its online fine art collection, making thousands of paintings, sculptures and tapestries accessible. The museum, not formally an art museum, plans to digitize future collections.Untitled by Isa Smiler painted in Inukjuaq, Quebec between 1950 and 1954. (Isa Smiler/PWNHC catalogue number 993.004.168)The Northwest Territories’ Prince of Wales…
The Grand Falls-Windsor centre, built to honour Indigenous peoples of central Newfoundland, is waving goodbye to a colonial title for Demasduit, a Beothuk woman kidnapped by European settlers.This is a painting of Demasduit, believed to be one of the last known Beothuk in Newfoundland. A Newfoundland and Labrador museum that has long displayed the colonial…
The B.C. Royal Museum has announced it will be closing sections of the First People’s gallery on its third floor as it seeks to decolonize the institution.The Royal B.C. Museum is a Crown corporation, receiving an annual $11.9 million grant from the government. (Mike McArthur/CBC)The B.C. Royal Museum has announced it will be closing sections of…
Until recently, gift shops in some of B.C.’s most famous museums and art galleries have sold wood carvings by an artist identified as “Harvey John” for hundreds of dollars a piece. There is no Harvey John, and the person responsible for these carvings is not Indigenous at all.A carving by phoney Indigenous artist ‘Harvey John,’…
The McLaren F1 GT LM is arguably the greatest car ever made and one you’re unlikely to see again. Petersen Museum While…
The embattled Canadian Museum for Human Rights says it will make sweeping changes to rebuild the organization more than four months after staff came forward with shocking allegations of racism and LGBT censorship.The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has released a framework on how to move forward and repair the damage the organization has caused.…