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- Degas art stolen in 1973 will return to France
- An Edgar Degas painting that was stolen 37 years ago and recovered earlier this year in New York will be returned to France, U.S. officials said Thursday.
- Thieves steal truck full of art in Spain
- Thieves near Madrid, Spain, have stolen a truck with 28 works of art, including at least one Picasso, Spanish police say.
- Toronto's Shary Boyle wins Hnatyshyn award
- Toronto artist Shary Boyle continues building her profile with a win Wednesday of the 2010 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award.
- Yukon photographer named Northerner of the Year
- Yukon resident and acclaimed National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen has been named the 2010 Northerner of the Year by Up Here Magazine.
- War Museum buys royal Vimy medal
- The Canadian War Museum has bought a piece of royal memorabilia — a medal worn by King Edward VIII at the 1936 unveiling of Canada's colossal Vimy Memorial in France.
- Donor boosts prize for N.L. visual arts writing
- A new award for critics who write about Newfoundland and Labrador's visual artists has attracted two anonymous donors.
- Tate Britain plans $71.6M makeover
- Tate Britain, the national museum devoted to Britain's art heritage, is have a makeover costing £45 million ($71.6 million Cdn) , its director Penelope Curtis announces.
- 2nd Pompeii structure collapses
- A stretch of garden wall around an ancient villa in Pompeii collapses, just weeks after a house once used by gladiators crumbled.
- Thieves take VW replica from Vancouver sculpture
- Thieves have stolen a one-metre replica of a Volkswagen Beetle that is part of a sculpture entered in the Vancouver Biennale public art exhibition.
- Undocumented Picasso trove appears in France
- A lawyer for the administrator of Pablo Picasso's estate says a retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 previously unknown works by the artist.