LOUSIVILLE, USA — Art is a process of constant revision — sketching, erasing, sketching some more. And the same goes for the Greater Louisville Master Plan for the Arts, which was unveiled earlier this year with the goal of galvanizing the local arts community and helping the regional economy. Now, the picture is getting clearer.

INDIA — From Bihar and Mumbai to Anandpur Sahib, museums are being reinvented with digital, interactive resources.

What's the difference between a museum consultant compared to a curator or an architect? Batul Raj Mehta and Aparna Khemani are among the many professionals taking on this all-encompassing position.

It might be as grandiose as the upcoming Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Statue of Unity near Vadodara, or the Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Statue in Mumbai, but JPN Singh is counting on the new Bihar Museum to bring back the pride of Biharis.

TORONTO, CANADA — The Royal Conservatory of Music has negotiated a deal with the Ontario government that significantly reduces the principal amount owing on an onerous multimillion-dollar loan while still keeping the loan on government ledgers.

NEW YORK, USA — To recognize the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is unveiling its first-ever art exhibit.

BERLIN, MUSEUM — In the Multaka project, refugees lead guided museum tours for others displaced from Syria and Iraq.

LONDON, UK — Florian Wupperfeld warned that London is at risk of losing its "soft power."

INTERNATIONAL — In the late 1980s, and in a series of subsequent publications, US political scientist Joseph Nye articulated the ability of nation-states to win allies and gain influence by non-violent means instead of through military force and economic might.

INTERNATIONAL — An increasing number of museums are improving on their non-cultural offerings in order to appeal to more people. Is it working?

ITALY — Italy's museums are turning to private sector funding to cover costs.

PITTSBURGH, USA — As the director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh for the past five years, Eric Shiner worked to expose the broadest possible public to the Pop artist’s work. Now, instead of showing Warhols, he is selling them.  

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — The British architect sits down with AD to discuss the much-anticipated addition to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

TOKYO, JAPAN — Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo. 

ATHENS, GREECE — Renzo Piano brings his characteristic flare to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens3

PARIS, FRANCE — Coming soon to an arrondissement near you: An over-the-top new way to experience artistic masterpieces.

CALIFORNIA, USA — In a small room at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, visitors use technology to fill the room with information and transport themselves around the world. 

NEW YORK, USA — The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has a collection spanning roughly 3000 years of design history, and now it's all online for everyone to see.

CANADA — The National Arts Centre has lifted the lid on a major fundraising campaign that could become a significant force in commissioning new works from Canadians working in music, theatre and dance.

INTERNATIONAL — What kind of artwork gets the most response online? In the era of Instagram, where successful art careers are literally manufactured through the massive accumulation of ‘followers’, this is not a subject for idle speculation.

NEW YORK, USA — It's a sight familiar to any visitor to New York's axis of art history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art—easel-toting artists parked in front of some of the collection's greatest masterpieces, painting or drawing the images they see in front of them in a state of nearly holy mad concentration.

USA — The focus in 2016 may be on national politics, but it’s cities and the people who live in them that are more often the epicenter for change, innovation, upheaval, leadership, and progress.

ATHENS, GREECE — The IdeasCity Athens artist residency took place this past weekend in the second edition of the four-part, New Museum-backed project—partnered by NEON Greece—that started in Detroit, next heads to Arles in the South of France, and ends its run in New York, this time next year.

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — It may not be a brand new concept but the creative city is the next seriously big thing. British urban planner Charles Landry was one of the first to identify creativity's importance in cities during the 1980s, citing its contribution to planning, renewal and prosperity.