News and events - October 2026
Updated: 1 day ago
Newly added - October 21, 2026.
🎨 Nona Zilberberg is exhibiting!
You’re Invited! I’m delighted to invite you to my solo exhibition, “Love for Colors,” at the Côte Saint-Luc Public Library Art Gallery! Join me in celebrating the beauty of colors, nature, and artistic expression through my paintings. Light refreshments and drinks will be provided! Hope to see you there to have some fun and exchange only good new in your personal and artistic life!
📅 Exhibition: October 22 – December 15, 2026
✨ Meet the Artist - 🗓️ November 12, 2026 - 🕔 5:00–7:00 PM
📍 Location: Côte Saint-Luc Public Library Art Gallery, 5851 Cavendish Blvd., Côte Saint-Luc, QC H4W 2X8.
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At the McGill Rare Books Library - Music in Motion | Musique en Mouvement.
Exploring singing games through McGill’s Collections. Come and explore Music in Motion! The exhibition is open to all on the ground floor of the McLennan Library Building.
Explore the digital exhibition to hear what singing games sound like today through recordings and videos of many games played today in Quebec schoolyards, music classes, and playgrounds. Some of these songs are on display in the exhibition cases, showcasing the myriad ways that these singing games have been published, notated, and shared.
Book your spot for a guided tour, a singing games session, or for a curator conversation. See details and dates for exhibition events
1938. Ernest Van De Velde. Chantons, Dansons : Rondes et Chansons, Avec Accompagnements Faciles. Illustrated by Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain, Maison Mame, Paris. Uncat 0892
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Photography and art history:
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 winners revealed:
Portfolio Award - Secret Worlds by Kutub Uddin.
In this image, titled Tiny Dancers, Uddin photographs fine threads, known as capillitium, which emerge on the round, yellow-green bodies. Uddin says they appear like “tiny clusters or unusual textures on the wood, often appearing as minute pins, spheres or dust-like groupings.” His portfolio focuses on slime moulds, which mostly grow on dead wood or leaf litter while feeding on other micro-organisms. The structures depicted in this portfolio are just one to two millimetres high (less than 1/12 of an inch). - Kutub Uddin / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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Still life – Dutch masters:
“Still Life with Silver Ewer” (c. 1656, oil on canvas, 29 x 65 in.) by Willem Kalf
Watch these videos!
Looking past symbolism: meaning and Dutch still life
Symbolism in Vanitas Paintings
The Rise of Vanitas Paintings – Art, Mortality, and the Meaning of Life
Skulls, Violins, and Life: Pieter Claesz’s Vanitas Paintings
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Things to do when it rains- October 12, 2026.
Halloween at Maison Saint-Gabriel - October 15, 21, 23, 29, 30, and 31, 2026.
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HOLLY FRIESEN 'Shifting Ground' until Oct. 24, 2026.
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Un regard collectif - Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay.
Du 31 octobre 2026 - 13 h 00 au 12 décembre 2026 - 17 h 00.
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Calls:
The McClure Gallery is now accepting submissions for its 2027-2028 exhibition programme. Contemporary artists of all media and curators with an exhibition proposal are invited to apply.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2026, at 11:59 pm
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Books:
The Giller Prize 2026 Shortlist. Founded in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, the Giller Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best Canadian novel, graphic novel, or short story collection written in or translated into English.
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Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross the boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
Photo by Peter Smith
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Arts news:
A family in France had a painting of lions in their living room for 150 years. It was a Delacroix.
A section of Eugène Delacroix's Study of Reclining Lions Hôtel Drouot
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Watch this - National Galleries Scotland:
--------------------------------------------------------------------Pope Leo Calls to Save Art From AI. “Algorithms lack the spark of the human, whereas ‘authentic culture and art preserve this spark,’” he said in a recent speech.
Pope Leo XIV prays in front of the statue of Notre-Dame de Paris at the end of the Celebration of Vespers on September 25, 2026. (photo Simone Risoluti courtesy Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
Pope Francis’s Most Timeless Insights on Art and Artists. Among his many legacies, the late pontiff left behind a trove of musings on contemporary art, the role of museums, and even the pitfalls of the art market.
Pope Francis receives a painting as a gift during a ceremony at the Sant’Egidio church in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome, on June 15, 2014. (photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Max Miller on the ancient history of mustard:
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Events and Exhibits:
Inauguration of Parc Ionkwatia'tarò:ron - Buckskin Babes Cultural Hub. On behalf of Buckskin Babes Urban Moose Hide Tanning Collective, Press Start Coop and the South-West Borough, we invite you to the upcoming inauguration of Parc Ionkwaria’arò:ron - meaning we have gathered in Kanien’kéha - the first permanent Indigenous outdoor hide tanning cultural hub of its kind here in Tiohtià:ke.
Where: Parc Ionkwatia’tarò:ron, Bâtiment 7. 1900 Rue Le Ber.
H3K 2A4.
When: Saturday October 3rd, 2026. 11am - 5pm.
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At the MMFA – The Art of Batik. Instructor: Avy Loftus, artist and art educator. Level: Beginner.
Saturday, October 17 and Saturday, October 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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For MMFA members:
Preview of Allison Katz “Jeu d’esprit”:
(born in 1980), AKgraph (Mountain Time), 2025, oil on linen, 180 x 140 cm. Collection of Candace Barasch. © Allison Katz. Photo Eva Herzog
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New exhibit | Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles.
Chiharu Shiota’s Reflection of Space and Time (2018), in the exhibition Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. White dress, mirror, metal frame, Alcantara black thread, 280 x 300 x 400 cm. Collection of the artist. © Chiharu Shiota / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / CARCC Ottawa 2026. Photo Sunhi Mang.
Photo courtesy Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
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At the McCord:
For her new body of work, Carrie Allison focused largely on handmade beadwork objects, many donated to the Museum by the Gaudet family.
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At the Arsenal Gallery - Biennale ELEKTRA - F(R)ICTION : art et jeux.
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Architectural tours – Héritage Montréal - From August 15 to October 25, 2026, come explore the Olympic Park and its surroundings, Jeanne-Mance Park to the McGill campus, the Complexe Claude-Robillard and its neighbourhood, the heart of the Town of Mount Royal, and the parks of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
News:
Canada Malting plant could collapse at any moment, engineering report says. Report recommends demolition, threat of falling debris forces street closure near plant.
The Canada Malting company site along the Lachine Canal in St-Henri was built in 1902. It was sold in 1980 and has been abandoned for 30 years. (Elias Abboud/CBC)
Canada Malting: Public Safety Must Not, Once Again, Be Used to Demolish Heritage – Héritage Montréal
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Great gift ideas!
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Essentrics Breast Cancer Fundraiser Class.
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On CBC Gem - Adapted from the 1954 novel by William Golding, Lord of the Flies centres around a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. Streaming October 22nd.
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Photography:
Calls:
International Contest Honouring Fine Art Photography - Edition 2026 – 2027.
Other categories:
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Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and other fun things to photograph:
Hodel-Rosenfield - Architecture like you’ve never seen before!
Angela Cameron:
Roxanne Overton:
Paul Atkinson:
Helga Stentzel - Laundry art and other fun creations:
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A nosy polar bear and a lucky squirrel: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist.
c/o Norwegian wildlife photographer Audun Rikardsen
Just amazing!
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These animals only wanted to look sexy for the camera as they strike a pose to make it to the finals of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards.
(Image credit: Scott Suriano / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Award)
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The natural world is so artful! Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.
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Music:
The ‘wildest music’ Stewart Goodyear ever heard? Classical. The Canadian pianist and composer discusses his relationship with classical music and his love of Beethoven.
Stewart Goodyear in the Q portrait studio in Toronto. (Kenneth Collins/CBC)
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For Jean-Michel Blais, pianos are excellent secret keepers. The acclaimed composer and pianist discusses his upcoming new concept album, mirador.
Jean-Michel Blais's new album, mirador, is out Sept. 25. (Adrian Villagomez)
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Why Caity Gyorgy likes to 'rage bait' her pianist Mark Limacher. In a Q interview, the singer and pianist discuss their new duo album, You Irritate Me So.
Mark Limacher and Caity Gyorgy in the Q photo studio in Toronto. (Kenneth Collins/CBC)
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Arts and culture news:
A unique and hidden collection is on view in Prague. DW’s Rob Cameron reports on a unique collection of artwork in Prague that serves as an extraordinary visual record of disability in Europe from World War II.
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Famous Follies: 10 Garden Follies to Add to Your Bucket List.
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It’s all about the kids! Why these children are guarding the world’s rarest flower.
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Kids shape culture, and their drawings show what captures their attention. I scraped over 100 million drawings and paintings from Artsonia, an online student art gallery, to explore almost 20 years of favorite characters, passing obsessions, and everyday life.
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Go Behind the Scenes of Blackwing Pencils’ Ode to Analog Creativity.
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