The string of art thefts targeting the work of the Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch continues with a theft from a gallery last week in Oslo, and another previously unpublicized theft last summer.

The first Ars Audet happens Friday Nov. 5, 2009 at the beautiful Berkeley Church in Toronto, and brings together various elements of art, from actors to opera singers to comedians.

Canadian artist Shary Boyle has won the 2009 Iskowitz Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontartio. Boyle, a visual artist will be awarded on December 1, 2009 at AGO. Her work will be on exhibit during 2010.

I wish the title of this article was a rhetorical question, but it’s a practical issue. Rather than “What is art?” we are now confronted with “Why is art?” As an artist and the son of an artist, I’d like to explore “Why?"

Rush Limbaugh is a blow-hard; a buffoon who has mastered the art of nonsensical rhetoric aimed at the lowest common denominator of America’s politically ignorant and socially inept cave dwellers.

The headline for this article sounds like something you'd read in a supermarket tabloid. But in this case, it is absolutely true; a Melbourne artist had it done in 2007 and pictures are making their way around the Internet now.

You are invited to an art party held all over the world. Nuit Blanche takes place in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, San Francisco, Bruges, Montreal... and Toronto. It runs from dusk until dawn.

William A. Ewing is the Director of Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is in Toronto as one of the curators of Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937 opening this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

On Saturday the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto team up to present two exhibitions that focus of the art of celebrity photography.

Among the artworks taken from a Los Angeles home are 10 well-known pieces of famous late 1970s athletes. Among the ten athletes are Muhammad Ali, Pele, OJ Simpson and Chris Evert.

Jacques van Heerden, from Jeffreys Bay, South Africa has an amazing talent when it comes to digital art. The 18-year-old is more commonly known as An1ken in the art world. Van Heerden is much more than art , he's a level headed, well-rounded young man.

The exhibition Celebrating 40 Years: New Brunswick Art Bank Anniversary Exhibition commerorates the New Brunswick Art Bank's 40th anniversary.

Members of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) have the first chance to see King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Tickets for members go on sale on September 1 for the public opening on November 24, 2009.

San Francisco art dealer indicted by grand jury on Friday. Pasquale Iannetti charged with wire and mail fraud related to alleged sale of counterfeit prints by painter Miró. Iannetti is the owner and operator of Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries, Inc.

From September 9, 2009 until January 17, 2010 the Art Gallery of Ontario will host Beautiful Fictions: Photography at the AGO – featuring the Vivian & David Campbell Collection.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces appointment of new director. Museum founder Alice Walton describes Dr. Don Bacigalupi as “the ideal person for the job.”

French artists are notable by their absence from big international art auctions and galleries, and on the rare occasions that French art sells, it’s for low prices. French art needs to be more competitive, but efforts to change seem half-hearted at best

Often rap performers take on the names of notorious criminals. The use of adjectives that describe criminal activity or illegal materials are also popular with the genre. One New Orleans-based rapper appears to have taken his chosen nickname to heart.

Ten years ago the Art Gallery of Ontario launched the TEENS BEHIND THE SCENES Program to welcome young artists in Toronto. That program is now in its tenth year. On August 12 AGO will celebrate 10 years of great art from the youth of the city.

Buddhist art treasures thought lost for 70 years have been found in the deserts of Mongolia. A Buddhist monk buried 64 crates of treasures in the Gobi desert sands during Soviet and Mongolian Communist purges in the 1930s.