David Altmejd and Marcel Dzama, two of Canada's best known young contemporary artists, have been shortlisted for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, organizers announced Friday.

Venerable British artist David Hockney has embraced a new tool for his artistic creation, unveiling on Thursday a new exhibit featuring artwork created on his iPhone.

Oslo's opera and ballet house has captured the Mies van der Rohe Award, also known as the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington will mark the first 100 days of the Obama presidency on Wednesday with a new photo exhibit.

Three artists based in painting and drawing, as well as an installation artist who notably turned a derelict London flat into a fantastical crystal-encrusted cave, are this year's finalists for the U.K.'s prestigious Turner Prize.

Two watercolours attributed to Adolf Hitler have been sold to a private collector for 32,000 euros ($51,428 Cdn). Dated 1914, the paintings were sold at an auction in Nuremberg, Germany.

Montreal's Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Banff Centre, the Calgary Philharmonic and the Edmonton Folk Festival are among the cultural groups across the country who saw private donations to their endowment funds partially matched by the federal government on Friday.

Ontario's culture ministry offered some good news to the province's artists this week, announcing a funding boost of $5 million to the Ontario Arts Council.

The Canada Council Art Bank is acquiring 55 contemporary works by Canadian artists of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and mixed racial heritage.

Three decades after he set off "Tut Mania," Egypt's famed boy pharaoh is set to return to Toronto, with Art Gallery of Ontario officials hoping he'll give a healthy boost to the art venue's flagging attendance.

Pablo Picasso's 1938 portrait of his daughter Maya as a toddler is expected to bring up to $33.8 million Cdn at Sotheby's New York auction next month.

Officials from the Austrian town of Linz say they will restore a painting by Gustav Klimt to the descendants of a Jewish family robbed of the piece by the Nazis.

A group of top architects, including Frank Gehry, have signed a public letter criticizing Prince Charles, saying he used his position to attack plans to develop a former army barracks in London.

American bank JP Morgan Chase is laying claim to a Dutch masterpiece that Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum had bought last year from a businessman who, the bank says, had used it as collateral for a loan. The Rijksmuseum bought Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde's The Bend in the Herengracht near the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat in Amsterdam (1672).

Two watercolour paintings signed by Adolf Hitler will be up for auction April 25 in Nuremberg, Germany.

The Art Gallery of Ontario, which recently reopened its Frank Gehry-designed main area in November, has axed 23 employees and dropped the contracts of 47 other workers, according to the Toronto Star.