News Digest for May 3, 2022

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The Art Gallery of Ontario has announced the team of architects charged with designing an expansion to boost exhibition space for its global collection. The team includes a leading New York firm, Selldorf Architects, as well as Toronto-based Don Schmitt, of Diamond Schmitt, and Brian Porter, of Six Nations of the Grand River’s Two Row Architect. The Toronto gallery expects to unveil a concept plan later this year. Gallery director Stephan Jost called the team "unmatched in its experience and calibre." Selldorf Architects recently completed the Luma Arles in France, and is now working on the Frick Collection in New York. “A project with global impact requires an international perspective, grounded in this land and this city,” he said. “AGO Global Contemporary is poised to launch the museum as a force in the international art world – and this team will get us there."