Named after filmmaker George Lucas, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork will open in Exposition Park with a set that platforms illustration, comics, cinema, and common imagery, treating them as key cultural texts, central to how tales are constructed and circulated. Co-founded with Mellody Hobson, the museum will home greater than 40,000 works, starting from early Twentieth-century illustration to modern comedian artwork, photography, and film-related materials, alongside archives from Lucas’s personal profession, together with props, fashions, and idea artwork. The constructing will organise its 100,000 sq. ft of gallery house into 35 rooms grouped round themes comparable to household, love, work, group, and childhood, relatively than by interval or medium. Shows will embody works by artists comparable to Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, and N. C. Wyeth, alongside comedian artists together with Jack Kirby and Alison Bechdel, putting historically “excessive” and “common” varieties in the identical body. Movie posters, children’s ebook illustrations, and science fiction imagery will sit proper subsequent to large-scale murals and documentary materials, broadening the definition of what belongs in a museum assortment. Opening: September 2026
Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
Kanal-Centre Pompidou
Kanal-Centre Pompidou
Brussels will reopen the Kanal-Centre Pompidou complicated inside a former Citroën manufacturing unit alongside the canal, changing a 40,000 sq m industrial construction into one in every of Europe’s largest museum developments. The constructing will home 5 flooring of galleries alongside efficiency areas, cinemas, workshops, and public areas, with components of the circulation designed to stay accessible even with no ticket. The redevelopment is led by Atelier Kanal, a collaboration between EM2N, noAarchitecten, and Sergison Bates, working inside the scale and materials character of the unique Artwork Deco manufacturing unit. The reopening programme will draw closely from the gathering of the Centre Pompidou, bringing over 350 works to Brussels, alongside items from Belgian and worldwide collections. Artists on view will vary from Henri Matisse and Sonia Delaunay to Pablo Picasso, Wifredo Lam, and contemporary practitioners related to town. A number of exhibitions will open concurrently, together with thematic group exhibits, solo commissions, and a big indoor set up by Assemble that capabilities as a playable panorama. The complicated may even home the CIVA assortment, integrating structure and urbanism archives into the programme. The venture varieties a part of a long-term collaboration with the Paris establishment, cementing its presence even because it undergoes renovation till 2030. Opening: November, 2026
