Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way. Kinngait, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Its ...

Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...

In the midst of a long brutal winter, it’s good to remember that beauty can be found in frozen places. The work of art that Tim and Joy Reade recently brought to a Trash or Treasure appraisal held at ...

In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in Inuit art ...

A new museum for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leading collection of Inuit art opens on Saturday in a project shaped by Inuit. By Ian Austen Winnipeg sits far from the territory of the Inuit. But the ...

As a youngster reading the books of the Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and leafing through old National Geographic magazines in my grandparents’ library, I was fascinated by the far North, and a trip ...

The landscapes and seascapes of the Arctic appear bleak and barren to those unfamiliar with the region, but Inuit know that they teem with life. Sea mammals and fish are abundant beneath the ice, and ...

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is inviting everyone to celebrate the opening of one of Canada’s most long-awaited and groundbreaking museums, Qaumajuq, with a virtual celebration and free days on ...

I: Arctic traditions -- Shamanistic traditions -- Dorset and Thule traditions in Canada -- II: Historic Inuit art -- Western aesthetics and Inuit art -- Interviews with Inuit artists -- Art by Nicola ...

2006-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Cape Dorset, Nunavut-- It's a sunny spring day, and some of Canada's best artists are sending up smoke signals all over a tiny town at the southwestern end of Baffin Island.

Growing up in Havana, Eugenia Druyet Zoubareva loved a special sweet treat called raspadura. Made by boiling down sugar cane, raspadura is usually sold in light brown blocks. It looks a bit like the ...