The organizer of this year's Toronto Biennial, Hopkins has written that art "allows us to hear in moments of silence, to open our ears rather than to close them."
The winner of the grand prize will be named on November 15.
A total of $240,000 CAD will be awarded to artists working in Canada.
Colin Bailey talks about his new job as head of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, how museums should use the Web, and what he misses about the Frick
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