Hyperallergic

Inuit Culture Comes to Life in Shuvinai Ashoona's Drawings

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 ...
The Art Newspaper

World's biggest Inuit art collection revealed at Winnipeg's new museum within a museum

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) will on 27 March mark the public opening of its Qaumajuq centre, a $C65m ($52.4m) extension of its downtown building that features a ...
Forbes

World’s Largest Public Collection Of Contemporary Inuit Art Opens In Winnipeg, Canada

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 ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

Arctic Museum Celebrates Its 50th with Major Inuit Art Gift

Longtime Inuit art collectors Judith and Robert Toll have given the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum a major gift of contemporary Canadian Inuit art. The Tolls describe their donation as “fifty Inuit ...
The Globe and Mail

Inuit art loses the Ookpik

The question of authenticity in Inuit art is a complicated one, and I found myself grappling with it as I took in the current show of Annie Pootoogook's drawings at the Power Plant Contemporary Art ...
Hyperallergic

Two Thousand Years of Inuit Art Goes on Display at the Frieze Masters Art Fair

Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region. The presence of art from the arctic region in the collection of ...
The Advocate

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum focuses on a different way of life in 'Tradition in Transition: Inuit Art & Culture'

Consider it, "Tradition in Transition: Inuit Art & Culture," your introduction to the Inuit. Once known as Eskimos, the Inuit people preserve their traditions through their art and stories told by one ...
Detroit News

Trash or Treasure: Interest in Inuit art growing

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

The Music of Inuit Art

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 ...
The Globe and Mail

Imitation art is everywhere - and it’s hurting the livelihoods of Inuit artists who make the real thing

In his sun-drenched workshop in Ottawa, July Papatsie chips away at a carving of an inukshuk, the well-known stone formations used by Inuit as landmarks and guideposts. Around here, he’s known for ...
The New York Times

Winnipeg’s New Showcase and Meeting Place for Inuit Art and Artists

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 ...