The Canadian Conference on the Arts addresses but does not resolve issues of importance to visual artists, ranging from tax reform to copyright. The Canada Council for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is formed to stimulate cultural production. 1958 Duncan Macpherson, one of the first editorial cartoonists to enjoy wide celebrity as an artist, joins the Toronto Star . Bill Reid and Douglas Cranmer initiate a Northwest Coast cultural revival when the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia asks them to make copies of totem poles and other artifacts. Canada artistique et litt raire appears in Montr al.
Gambit begins a five-year run in Toronto.
Isaacs changes the Greenwich gallery to the Issacs Gallery and begins to gather around him some of the most creative, if anarchic, individuals in Toronto. Influential New York painter Barnett Newman is visiting artist at Emma Lake. Dorothy Cameron opens the Here and Now Gallery in Toronto. Molinari and others found a short-lived magazine in Montr al, Situations , and some of the group surrounding it become known as the Nouveaux plasticiens. The Royal Ontario Museum's Annual supersedes its Bulletin .