TOKYO, JAPAN — As we congratulate Architectural Digest India on their fifth anniversary, we in Tokyo are also marking the fifth anniversary of Maki and Associates’ professional engagement with the country. At the end of 2011, Maki and Associates was announced as the winner of an international competition for designing the Bihar Museum in central Patna.

VIETMAN — Việt Nam’s first natural history museum will be built in HCM City on an area of 23.9 hectares inside the Historical and Cultural Park in District 9.

HALIFAX, CANADA — Even countries only get one chance at making a good first impression. With that in mind, an exhibit set to open at Halifax’s Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 takes a look at 150 years of those first impressions. It’s an exhibit years in the making and a celebratory atmosphere has taken hold.

CANADA — In light of the recent passing of writer, arts advocate and former editor of artscanada Barry Lord, senior editor Bryne McLaughlin reflects on the intersecting paths of our publication's history, and the theme of our spring issue.

DALLAS, USA — It’s been 15 years since the city of Dallas has revisited its cultural plan, a policy document that, among other things, establishes how public money gets dispersed among arts institutions and defines the role of the Office of Cultural Affairs.

BERMUDA — The Atlantic archipelago is abuzz with discussions about the value of art & culture. Several organizations came together recently to figure out what can be done for Bermuda's cultural scene.

INDIA — On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we profile a series of Indian women in the arts who are game changers in their respective fields. In the first of this series, we feature Batul Raaj Mehta, architect, and the person responsible for setting up Lord Cultural Resources in Mumbai.

SUDBURY, CANADA — In a report going before city council on Tuesday, city councillors will hear an update on each of the projects, which include a new arena and events centre, a new library/art gallery combo, the Place des Arts and the Synergy Centre.

BERMUDA — Arts and culture can be leveraged to move the island forward, according to Lauren Merkel.

TORONTO, CANADA — The 2017 Intersections festival includes more than 35 exhibits across the GTA during the month of March.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — They are streaming into New York from Calgary, Montreal and, of course, Newfoundland. Some wear red, stay warm in gloves adorned with the maple leaf, or carry a provincial flag.

INTERNATIONAL — Sex trafficking and an art exhibition may seem like an incongruous pairing. In May, though, the Patan Museum, a Unesco World Heritage site in Nepal, will host “The True Stories Project,” presented by Art Works for Change, a nonprofit based in Oakland, Calif., in collaboration with the Siddhartha Foundation, based in Kathmandu.

INTERNATIONAL — In a tumultuous era, some museums are rushing to embrace the political moment, while others deliberately retreat.

USA — Don your pink pussy hat and celebrate Women's History Month at one of these museums around the country—or tune in to the celebrations online.

DENVER, United States of America — The museum-quality descriptions talk of influences from pre-Raphaelite fashion to Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis and from Fascist uniforms to US Air Force jumpsuits.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — When Tom Campbell steps down as director of the Metropolitan Museum on June 30, the top job at the biggest art museum in the United States will be up for grabs. A woman faces long odds of landing that job, to judge from a study just released from the Association of Art Museum Directors.

INTERNATIONAL — “The plain truth is this: without journalists, there is no news.” True or false? For generations, “news” has been something delivered by “journalists” — people working for organizations whose role was to decide what should be reported and how. The “audience” received the information.

INTERNATIONAL — Louvre Abu Dhabi is sure to attract global attention this year when it becomes the first international outpost of the Louvre to open its doors. But it’s by no means the Persian Gulf’s maiden museum project.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Politicians have failed to grasp the value of London's booming architecture industry, which is worth more than the city's industrial design, graphics and fashion sectors combined and growing almost twice as fast, according to a new report by the mayor's office.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has launched its own in-house engineering department to cater to increasingly technically ambitious projects.

CHICAGO, USA — The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) may have been showered with critical acclaim following its 2015 debut, but as the exhibition’s co-curator Sarah Herda pointed out, “You can’t call it a biennial unless it happens twice.”

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — The Soyuz capsule that returned astronaut Tim Peake from the International Space Stations sits in the Science Museum. But what was it actually like to fall back to Earth from space?

MEAUX, FRANCE — Near the edge of a parapet of stacked sandbags, a test robot rumbles, offering visitors hundreds of miles away a bleak view of military life in World War I trenches.

VATICAN CITY — An ambitious digital imaging project to record the entire Michelangelo painting was unveiled at the Vatican’s museum in Rome last week, Reuters reports. Remarkably, the five-year project had been kept under wraps for the whole duration of the labor, with just a handful of experts and museum staff knowing about it.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — It’s only been a little over a day since Donald Trump formally proposed defunding the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, but already people in creative fields are responding, well, creatively.

NEW YORK, USA — “Irony, be gone,” said the Whitney’s director Adam Weinberg this morning, as he inaugurated the 2017 Whitney Biennial—the first to take place in its Meatpacking District location.

INTERNATIONAL — When it comes to industry reports, methodology can make all the difference. In her first year as the author of the TEFAF Global Art Market Report, Rachel Pownall single-handedly sliced off a third of the value of the global art market.

INTERNATIONAL — “We are living in a global suburban age. While statistics demonstrate that the amount of the world population in metropolitan areas is rapidly increasing, rarely is it understood that the bulk of this growth occurs in the suburbanized peripheries of cities.”

CANADA — A number of civic, academic and business leaders will gather today to envision how Ottawa and Gatineau can become "smart cities" of the future.

SUDBURY, CANADA — A 2.2 per cent property taxes increase to support a facility that's forecast to lose between $600,000 and $850,000 a year -- that's what Greater Sudburians might be asked to shell out to replace our ailing Sudbury Community Arena.