AUDAIN ART MUSEUM GETS $500,000

The Audain Art Museum announced that the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation had donated $500,000 to the Audain Art Museum Foundation, reports the Vancouver Sun’s Kevin Griffin. As a result, the wing housing the museum’s collection of paintings by Emily Carr will be renamed the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Gallery.

The gift increases the Audain Art Museum’s endowment to more than $5 million. Construction of the museum—designed by the team of John and Patricia Patkau—began in September 2013, with an opening planned this fall. The museum will be 56,000 square feet, the largest purpose-built art museum in British Columbia.