The Vancouver Art Gallery hopes to break ground on a new building in a year’s time after philanthropist and home builder Michael Audain donated $100-million toward the project
After a decade of planning, the Vancouver Art Gallery hopes to break ground on a new building in a year’s time – because a donor has come forward with a record $100-million gift for the project.
Plans for both the building, on land that the City of Vancouver first agreed to donate in 2011, and its proposed programming have expanded during the long gestation period. The site will now include artists’ studios and accommodation, a daycare and preschool, an Indigenous community house and 7,400 square metres of exhibition space – more than double that of the current Robson Square building.
Audain explained in an interview that he felt there were enough Audain galleries in B.C. already: there are spaces at both the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University that carry his family name, and he established the Audain Art Museum in Whistler in 2016.
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