Construction work has begun on Expo 2020 Dubai’s “The Future In Mind”-themed Canada Pavilion, with ground having broken on the wooden structure at the World Expo site. Ontario-based construction heavyweight Ellisdon was picked to design, build, and operate the pavilion.

On November 26, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Canada Pavilion was held at the Expo 2020 grounds in Dubai. As the selected contractor to design, build, and maintain, EllisDon has mobilized on-site and is set to begin construction on the national pavilion. Other companies working associated with the pavilion include Moriyama & Teshima Architects, Lord Cultural Resources, Hatch, Kubik, Thornton Tomasetti, NGX, and Cisco.

Circus Maximus have announced the launch of a new campaign for Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Brooklyn Children’s Museum was the first children’s museum in the world, founded in 1899.

For the BCM’s Fall OOH campaign, Circus Maximus conceived “Find Your Slow.” As a counterpoint to a popular New York indoor cycling brand, BCM wants to brand “slow” as a philosophical approach to city life that isn’t a negative in a town known for its speed. The campaign highlights how despite the belief that bigger, faster, stronger always wins, animals like the 2 toed sloth, and others have evolved and thrived by turning their small size and slow speed into their unique advantage.

Lord Cultural Resources is currently working on Strategic Plan for Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

The transformation of a 20,000-sq-ft former retail space into an exhibit area and community event venue designed to celebrate and promote Chicago as a center of architectural innovation was continually challenged to stay within a $6-million budget during the eight-month construction phase.

With the Chicago Architecture Center’s existing lease set to expire before the new space was ready, the construction schedule prioritized getting the revenue-generating retail area up and running, then focusing on completion of other project elements.

The completion of the “What We Heard” report on the Chinese Canadian Museum has me reflecting on my own family’s history in this country.

Four generations of my family have come to Canada. My great-grandfather came to work in Victoria in the 1890s, then returned to China. My grandfather came to Vancouver in 1911 and was forced to pay the head tax. Then my father came in 1955. I was only able to immigrate 10 years later. We all took similar journeys for very different reasons to make Canada our home.

Lord Cultural Resources is working with Chinese Canadian Museum on Feasibility Study and Business Plan.

Moncton and Dieppe are examining the creation of a contemporary art museum that could focus on Acadian and Indigenous works. The cities, together with non-profit Atlantic(que) Image-Art Inc., or AIA, have been quietly studying the concept. Joanne Duguay, Moncton's cultural development officer, says the study is 'favourable' toward creating a contemporary art museum with a possible focus on Acadian and Indigenous art. (Submitted/Joanne Duguay). She said Moncton's 2011 cultural plan had a museum as a priority item. A group was formed several years ago to pursue studying the idea. Dieppe council voted in January 2018 to lend financial support for a study of a contemporary art museum in southeastern New Brunswick.

A tender was issued in February this year for a multi-phase study. It sought a consultant to carry out a feasibility study to evaluate the potential for a museum in either Dieppe or Moncton. Lord Cultural Resources Inc. of Toronto was selected. The firm describes itself as the world's largest firm offering planning services for museums, art galleries and other cultural institutions.

As the 2010s come to a close, we're looking back at some of the coolest museums, amusement parks, and other cultural institutions that didn't exist 10 years ago. Here are 27 amazing places you couldn't visit a decade ago, from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

VANCOUVER -- The City of Vancouver is getting a $1 million boost from the B.C. government to support the establishment of a Chinese-Canadian museum, with the goal of creating branches in other communities across the province. This so-called hub-and-spoke model is inspired by feedback from public meetings earlier this year, said Bill Yee, who became the first Chinese-Canadian elected to Vancouver city council in 1982.

Lord Cultural Resources is working with Chinese Canadian Museum on Feasibility Study and Business Plan.

Gus Casely-Hayford, who has served as the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art since 2018, will be the V&A East’s inaugural director.

“We are going to craft dynamic and compelling ways for our audiences to get close to the extraordinary,” Gus Casely-Hayford said in a statement.

SANTA FE • Arts and culture can be the driver in addressing New Mexico’s most critical social and economic issues, said an agenda-setting group of culture-sector leaders at a public event this past October at the NM History Museum auditorium on the Historic Plaza of Santa Fe. The event explored strategies and ideas for turning this potential into real change. Gail Lord, President of Lord Cultural Resources, brought global perspective to the event, as well as in-depth perspective on New Mexico’s potential.

Africville Museum hosted its first-ever fundraiser and brought together top-notch talent at the Halifax Seaport Market on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Leading the way is Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski, who offered a repertoire that was a celebration of black composers. Hailed as a "pianist to watch" by New York Classical Review and a "dashing pianist" by the Sunday Times, Wnukowski has performed throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia in prestigious concert halls.

“I am encouraged that the museum will help our neighbors in South Carolina and visitors from across the world identify with themes of diversity, perseverance, innovation, hope and faith through the lens of the African American experience.” Anton Thomas.

If history is a living thing, it needs enough light and the right space to grow. A critical element of American history will begin to thrive at Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, where a groundbreaking was held Oct. 25 for the International African American Museum. Located where nearly half of enslaved Africans first set foot on American soil, the museum will shed new light on those tens of thousands of people, the country they helped to build, and South Carolina’s role in it all.

No issue is more relevant—and relevance is the cultural sector’s current leitmotif.

Cultural diplomacy (CD) in action with Abella’s presence in Frankfurt in mid-October, and this week’s DFA-sponsored Cultural Partners Consultation Conference, a two-day event mounted for the very first time.

The conference gathered over a hundred individuals engaged in arts and culture. While admittedly Metro Manila-centric, it made for an auspicious and encouraging representation, nonetheless. The roster promises to grow to make the program more inclusive.

The French President Emmanuel Macron is in Shanghai this week for the opening of the Centre Pompidou’s first venue in China. The joint venture with the city’s developing West Bund district means that the Paris institution finally gains a foothold in the country, and France can flex more of its soft power in Asia. But the deal comes with strings attached: All the art on show has to be “pre-approved” by the Chinese authorities.  Called the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, the waterfront institution opens to the public on Friday, November 8, against a backdrop of pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, and a simmering trade war between the US and China. The main reason for Macron’s second state visit to China in two years is to discuss trade and climate with Chinese President Xi Jinping. At the inauguration of the Pompidou, Macron celebrated the opening after taking a tour of the museum: “Long live the friendship of China and France.”

The Zayed National Museum is set to open in 2021, with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi now confirming that construction is underway in the Saadiyat Island Cultural District on Saadiyat Island.

Set within a carefully designed new urban district in the city of Liyang in eastern China, a new museum focusing on the local history sits like a pebble next to a lake. The project is the flagship of this new part of town, which is defined by its flowing, organic lines and artful blend of water, greenery and public landscaping.

Beijing's latest, hotly anticipated skyscraper opened to the public today: the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Leeza SOHO tower already made a big splash in architectural media long before it was even finished with its 623-foot-tall, full-height atrium (the world's tallest) and spectacular, Piranesiesque construction photos of the, then still rising, structural skeleton.

Designed by David Chipperfield architects, the ‘West Bund Museum’ in Shanghai has officially opened to the public. As previously reported, the institution will show a series of exhibitions in collaboration with Paris’ centre Pompidou as part of a cultural collaboration between china and France. located on the shanghai corniche, an 8.5 kilometer (5 mile) frontage on the northern bank of the Huangpu river, the new art gallery forms part of a larger cultural district for china’s biggest city.

France’s leading museum and exhibition operating studio, culturespaces, adapted bordeaux’s former WWII submarine base into the largest digital art center in the world — the ‘bassins de lumières’. the immersive exhibition will be open to public starting April 17, 2020 and will operate all year, seven days a week. Similar to its prior multimedia exhibition, atelier des lumières in Paris, culturespaces will also devote its main exhibition spaces at bassins de lumières to iconic artists in art history, such as Gustav Klimt and Paul Klee.

The City of London is currently in the hunt for a Smart City office manager. The city's director of planning, John Fleming, says the position will bring innovation technology to city planning.

Fleming says it's about using technology to improve lives. "It's not just using technology for the sake of using technology," he said. "It's how can it help us? That's really what the Smart Cities Strategy is all about."

CHICAGO—In her exhibition The Last Cruze, LaToya Ruby Frazier presents a deep dive into lives of factory workers in Lordstown, Ohio, still reeling from General Motor’s decision to “unallocate” (read: effectively close) the local plant whose production of the eponymous sedan had guaranteed their livelihoods. At the Renaissance Society, Frazier installed over 60 photographs from this new body of work, alongside texts and other elements that portray the resulting state of limbo, as workers must decide to accept relocation, or lose their jobs, pensions, and benefits.

What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial galleries, art magazines, private collections and public commissions.

During this exhilarating sea change new talent emerged, older talent was newly appreciated and the history of American art was suddenly up for grabs — and in dire need of rewriting.

As Marco Panzetti’s photographs show, it’s hauntingly beautiful. But for the dwindling number of locals, it’s a catastrophe.

BAGUIO CITY, Benguet, Philippines — An old building, which former first lady Imelda Marcos put up as a Baguio livelihood facility during martial law, is now a creative center for crafts produced by the summer capital. The Maharlika Livelihood Center, which is operated by the Human Settlements Development Corp., would now serve as a marketing center for the summer capital, which was the country’s first city to join the world’s Creative Cities Network.

New York City is about to get a whole lot brighter. This December, New York’s Citi Field will host the largest lantern festival in North America. The event, known as the Hello Panda Festival, will take over some 700,000 square feet of space and entertain guests with a fully interactive and multisensory experience. It will also be a social media-ready affair with some 120 Instagrammable lantern exhibits containing more than 10 million handcrafted and hand-painted lights.