Contemporary Inuit art usually is dated to 1948, when Toronto artist James Houston visited the eastern Arctic and returned to Montreal with a few samples of small carvings in stone and ivory.

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 ...

When Inuit art first started to circulate in cities such as Montreal and Toronto, then overseas, the works drew heavily on the natural world as well as precontact myths and traditions.

To underscore how prevalent the issue of inauthentic Inuit art is, ... From 2006 to 2010, 649 complaints were made by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, the report said, ...

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 ...

Nunavut’s Inuit art scene is still in decent shape in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. But those who help bring the artwork to market in the $33 million industry warn the bubble may soon burst.

As a result, Inuit art is generally marked, exhibited and distributed apart from the contemporary Canadian art scene – a sphere that’s often focused on a few select themes, ...

Arts and crafts "mean something to us and strengthen Inuit Greenlandic culture," Blidorf says, adding that she feels "complete" when wearing her jewelry. " The Indigenous Inuit were told to ...

Inuit music takes centre stage in a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.. Tusarnitut! Music Born of the Cold, which runs from Thursday to March 12, assembles an evocative array of ...

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 ...

By Joanne Ditmer Denver Post Staff Writer. Mar. 24 - Nunavut is less than a year old as a territory ruled by the Native People, but it has an art heritage that goes back thousands of years.. On Canada ...