A new exhibition in Fredericton called 'Touch: A Tactile Exhibition' launched at the George Fry Gallery, inviting visitors to physically touch the artworks. Organized in collaboration with Craft NB and the CNIB Foundation, the show features works by twelve professional craft artists designed with input from CNIB to be accessible to people with varying degrees of vision, emphasizing high-contrast colors and tactile engagement.
Barrie artist Francesca Viscardi has been selected to compete in ART COMP, one of the largest global art competitions, with her oil painting *In Between Conversations*. The announcement was made on June 10, 2026, by local journalist Jocelyn Martin.
Montreal's annual Mural Festival is transforming Saint-Laurent Boulevard into an open-air art gallery, turning the iconic thoroughfare into a two-week street party where artists create large-scale murals in real time. The event, reported by CTV News Montreal's Christine Long, brings together local and international artists to paint the walls of the Plateau neighborhood, drawing crowds to watch the creative process unfold along 'The Main.'
The City of Windsor is calling for young artists to participate in the 10th Annual Children’s Art Exhibition, as announced by journalist Melanie Kentner. The open call invites children to submit artwork for a community-focused show celebrating its tenth edition.
The 2026 Met Gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, featured celebrities arriving in dramatic, custom outfits adhering to the dress code 'Fashion is art.' Notable attendees included Naomi Osaka in a Robert Wun white sculptural dress with red feathers and dripping red paint, Emma Chamberlain in a hand-painted Mugler gown by Miguel Castro Freitas, and co-chair Anna Wintour in a mint ensemble by Matthieu Blazy for Chanel. The event celebrated the opening of the Costume Institute's exhibition 'Costume Art.'
Sotheby's held its first sale at its new US headquarters in New York, where Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold for $236.4 million, becoming the most valuable work of modern art ever sold at auction and the most expensive artwork ever sold by Sotheby's globally. The record-breaking 20-minute bidding war also saw strong results for works by Edvard Munch ($35.1 million) and a Klimt landscape ($86 million), while the evening's total reached $706 million. However, two top lots by Kerry James Marshall and Barkley L. Hendricks failed to sell, and Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet "America" drew only a single bid from Ripley's Believe It or Not! for $12.1 million.
The St. Albert Art Gallery is opening a new exhibition featuring Herra Khan's work "Triangular Prism," a gouache on handmade vasli paper. The exhibition is set to debut, as announced in a brief article by Sasha Pietramala published on September 3, 2025.
A Montreal art program for neurodiverse adults, called Art Seen, is preparing for an exhibition at the McClure Gallery from June 12 to 22, 2025. The program, run in partnership between the Visual Arts Centre and the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) at the Wagar Adult Education Centre, provides studio space and training in painting, printing, cartooning, and collage. Students like Victoria McIntosh, Matthew Brotherwood, Lisa Potter, Juliette Plamondon, and Jonathan Pepin are creating works for the show, which includes a theme titled 'the reconstructed' that involves repurposing old art history books to assert their place in the narrative.
Contemporary Calgary hosted its annual Look Gala 2025, a fundraising event featuring an art auction that showcased works by artists from across Canada. The gala drew art lovers to the venue for an evening of celebration and support for the institution.