Michel Sapone was born in 1912, in a small village just north of Naples. Following an apprenticeship as a tailor and completion of his wartime service, in the Spring of 1950 Sapone found himself in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the Côte d’Azur, accepting a painting from Italian artist Manfredo Borsi as payment for a suit of clothes. Within a few years, Sapone was bartering tailor-made clothing for art with Pablo Picasso.

Video games can’t be “real” art because they’re a collaboration rather than the expression of one person’s vision. Okay, but opera, ballet, theatre and film are collaborations, too. Does Pac-Man’s design deserve to be in the same museum as Picasso?

An interview with Cesar Lopez, one of the artists in Sakàhan: International Indigenous Art, on view at the National Gallery of Canada until 2 September 2013.

An interview with Sonny Assu, one of the artists in Sakàhan: International Indigenous Art, on view at the National Gallery of Canada until 2 September 2013.

The National Gallery pays a visit to Shary Boyle at The Banff Centre to see how she is progressing on the road to representing Canada at the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which begins 1 June and runs through to 24 November.