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Paintings by Jean Paul Lemieux and Emily Carr sold for well over $1 million each at the Heffel spring auction in Vancouver.

Canada's Science and Technology Museum has raised the age limit for a controversial sex exhibit after complaints about the content.

American singer Donna Summer, who rose to fame with disco-era hits including Love to Love You Baby, Last Dance and Hot Stuff, has died of cancer at age 63.

Country pop star Carrie Underwood, the most commercially successful American Idol winner to date, is back with Blown Away, a No. 1 album in both Canada and the U.S.

Grammy award winning singer songwriter Norah Jones has released a new record, Little Broken Hearts, which some critics have called her "darkest work to date".

A film about celebrated American director Robert Altman is in the works, spearheaded by one of his biggest fans: Canadian documentary maker Ron Mann.

Three members of the children's music quartet The Wiggles will be hanging up their colourful outfits and leaving the Australian band this year, with the Blue Wiggle the lone original member left dancing.

The National Film Board has released an interactive documentary-in-progress that tracks the progress of a "radical" housing project for homeless people.

After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the museum-studded Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the U.S. capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75.

A painting bought at a Vancouver garage sale and believed to be the work of iconic Canadian artist Tom Thomson has been sold at auction for $110,000, considerably less than its estimated value.

A strong Canadian contingent is heading to La Croisette for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, which will screen new movies from both established names like David Cronenberg and budding directors invited to the French fest for the first time.

Passengers aboard a delayed Air Canada flight got a welcome surprise when a travelling Balkan Klezmer band broke out their instruments and treated them to a four-song set.

Soprano Measha Brueggergosman and singer-songwriter Feist, two Canadian artists who have achieved international success, are the latest honorary fellows of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Stage and screen star Liza Minnelli, folk singer-songwriter James Taylor and filmmaker and musician Emir Kusturica will receive special awards at the upcoming Montreal International Jazz Festival.

A P.E.I. lawyer is finishing up a children's book series on Canada's Charter of Rights with some help from a New Brunswick lobster, a Montreal bagel, a Saskatchewan moose, and Anne of Green Tomatoes.

Drake, Hedley score 5 nominations each

Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is going from Facebook to Apple, with the Oscar-winning writer to pen a screenplay based on the Steve Jobs biography

Quebec theatre producer Normand Latourelle is back with Odysseo, the newest production of his equestrian and performing arts troupe Cavalia.

Prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City, according to Mexico's cultural agency. He was 83.