With the collapse of the fur trade during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Inuit families throughout the Canadian Arctic had to abandon their nomadic traditions, more to towns, and learn ...

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 ...

Spanning from Alaska through the circumpolar regions of Canada, to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life invites meditations on the rhythms of life particular to these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG), the oldest public art gallery in Western Canada, will reopen its doors to the public on March 27 with a new exhibition space containing the largest public collection 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 Inuit art ...

BETHESDA, Md. — A retired federal scientist has been trying to import “Spirit,” a 2-foot-tall Inuit sculpture carved from ancient whalebone he bought in Toronto for $100,000. But despite the aid of ...

James Houston, who died Sunday in New London, Conn., at age 83, was an artist, writer, and adventurer who introduced Inuit art to collectors worldwide and subsequently became a master sculptor for ...

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 ...